Annual Report 2010/11 - Australian Water Polo Inc

Annual Report 2010/11

Contents 

> Office Bearers 2010/11........................................................................................... 4 

> Honour Roll.................................................................................................................. 5 

> Message from the Australian Sports Commission..................................... 6 

> President’s Report..................................................................................................... 7 

> Chief Executive Officer’s Report.......................................................................... 8 

> High Performance Report............................................................................... 9-10 

> Australian Government Direct Athlete Support....................................... 10 

> Operations Report.................................................................................................. 11 

> National Development Report.......................................................................... 12 

> National Media Report......................................................................................... 13 

> National League Report....................................................................................... 14 

> Senior Men’s Report........................................................................................15-19 

> Senior Women’s Report.................................................................................20-23 

> Hall of Fame Dinner 2011.............................................................................24-25 

> Athletes’ Commission Report............................................................................ 26 

> Referees’ Commission Report............................................................................ 27 

> National Capitation 2011................................................................................... 28 

> National Championship Results 2010/11.............................................29-30 

> National Team Results 2010/11.................................................................31-36 

> Statement by the Board of Directors............................................................. 37 

> Independent Auditor’s Report.....................................................................38-39 

> Statement of Comprehensive Income.......................................................... 40 

> Statement of Financial Position....................................................................... 41 

> Statement of Changes in Equity...................................................................... 42 

> Statement of Cash Flows.................................................................................... 42 

> Notes to and forming part of the accounts..........................................43-44 

> Notes to the financial statements............................................................45-50 

Australian Water Polo Members Inc 

Queensland Water Polo Inc, New South Wales Water Polo Inc, Australian Capital Territory Water Polo Inc, Victorian Water Polo Inc. 

Tasmanian Water Polo Inc, South Australian Water Polo Inc, Western Australia Water Polo Inc, Northern Territory Water Polo Inc. 

Mission Statement 

AWPI will be recognised and accepted as a successful major sporting organisation both in Australia and internationally through its astute and 

planned management, the performance of international teams and the presentation of water polo at all levels. 

Affiliation 

Australian Water Polo Inc is affiliated to Swimming Australia Ltd. 

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Office Bearers 2010/11 

Honorary Officers 

Patron 

Peter Montgomery AM 

Board 

President 

Peter Kerr AM 

Directors 

Leanne Barnes (retired 28 Nov 2010) 

John Birch 

Trent Franklin 

Warren Hawtin 

David Martin 

Phillip Scales 

Amy Hetzel 

Kay Copeland (appointed 28 Nov 2010) 

State Delegates 

Queensland 

Jack Lusic 

New South Wales 

David Marks 

Australian Capital Territory 

Andrew Digan 

Victoria 

Annabel Sides 

Tasmania 

Bill Roach 

South Australia 

Jon Harmer 

Western Australia 

Simon Tiverios 

Northern Territory 

John Cossons 

National Coaches 

Senior Men 

John Fox 

Senior Women 

Greg McFadden 

World Student Games 

Eddie Denis 

Junior Boys ‘91 

Adam Richardson 

Junior Girls ‘91 

Peter Szilagyi 


Dalibor Maslan 


Ryan Moar 


Chris Wybrow 


Aleks Osadchuk 

Referees’ Commission 

Chairman 

Michael McNeill 

Commissioners 

Michael Hart 

Phillip Scales 

Scott Schweickle 

Damir Stajduhar (2010) 

Mike DeFina (2011) 

Athletes’ Commission 

Chairman 


Commissioners 

Nikita Cuffe 

Toby Jenkins 

Bronwen Knox 

Thomas Whalan 

National League Commission 

Chairman 

Warren Hawtin 

Commissioners 

John Birch 

Suzie Fraser 

Stephen O’Keefe 

Danielle Woodhouse 

Personnel 

Chief Executive Officer 

Christopher Harrison 

Secretary General/ 

High Performance Manager 

John Whitehouse OAM 

Operations Manager/ 

NWPL General Manager 

Peter Hobday 

National Development Manager 


National Media Manager 

Russell McKinnon 

Finance Manager 

Glen Ransley 

Finance Assistants 

Denis Kerslake 

Allan Park 

Administration Officer 

Julia Annells 

Merchandise Officer 

David Clarke 

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Honour Roll 

Life Members 

1993 Peter Montgomery AM 

2009 Tom Hoad AM 

2009 Pat Jones 

2009 Harry Quittner 

2009 David Woods 

Honorary Life President 

Harry Quittner 

Hall Of Fame 

2009 Wendy Arancini 

(nee Meloncelli, WA) 

2009 Debbie Cummins 

(nee Handley, QLD) 

2009 Tom Hoad AM (WA) 

2009 Andrew Kerr (NSW) 

2009 Peter Montgomery AM (NSW) 

2009 Cathy Parkes (NSW) 

2009 Charles Turner (SA & NSW) 

2009 Debbie Watson (NSW) 

2009 John Whitehouse (TAS) 

2010 Bill Berge-Phillips (NSW) 

2010 Bridgette Gusterson (WA) 

2010 David Neesham (WA) 

2010 John O’Brien (VIC) 

2010 Harry Quittner (VIC) 

2010 Ray Smee (NSW) 

2010 David Woods (NSW) 

2011 Leanne Barnes (VIC) 

2011 Peter Kerr (NSW) 

2011 Ian Mills (VIC) 

2011 Les Nunn (WA) 

2011 Michael Withers (VIC, NSW) 

2011 Chris Wybrow (NSW) 

Harry Quittner Medal Recipients 

1986 Charles Turner 

1987 Debbie Cummins 

1988 Peter Montgomery 

1989 Tom Hoad AM 

1990 Andrew Kerr 

1991 John Whitehouse 

1992 Chris Wybrow & 

Debbie Watson 

1993 Not awarded 

1994 Ray Mayers 

1995 Pat Jones 

1996 Don Cameron 

1997-06 Not awarded 

2007 Nathan Thomas 

2008 Tracy Rockwell 

2009 Leanne Barnes 

2010 Jeanette Gunn 

2009 Award Winners 

Male Player Rob Maitland 

Female Player Bronwen Knox 

Junior Male Player Jeremy Davie 

Junior Female Player Zoe Arancini 

Coach 

Paul Oberman 

Player with a Disability Bridgette Moore 

Volunteer 

Graham Wulf 

Referee 

Danny Flahive 

2010 Award Winners 

Male Player Sam McGregor 

Female Player Victoria Brown 

Junior Male Player Aaron Younger 

Junior Female Player Nicola Zagame 

Coach 

Les Kay 

Volunteer 

Karen Armstrong 

Referee 

Danny Flahive 

Photo Credit: Anthony Pearse, Pearse Photography 


Message from the Australian Sports Commission 

The countdown to an Olympic 

and Paralympic Games is an 

exciting time for Australians. 

As London 2012 looms on our 

horizon there is much work 

to be done to fine tune our 

preparations. 

The Australian Government and the 

Australian Sports Commission (ASC) 

continue to work closely with Olympic 

and Paralympic sports, along with the 

Australian Olympic and Paralympic 

Committees to ensure our athletes get 

the best possible support. 

Through the Green and Gold project, 

$3.85 million in extra funding has been 

provided for our top Olympic athletes 

and teams to boost their training and 

preparations for London 2012. 

A true sign that Australian sport is 

united in working together is the 

endorsement from the Commonwealth, 

State and Territory Governments of the 

National Sport and Active Recreation 

Policy Framework. 

What this means is that for the first 

time all governments have agreed on 

priorities for sport. 

Underpinning the Framework is 

the new National Institutes System 

Intergovernmental Agreement which 

unites our National Institutes of Sport 

and national sporting organisations to 

work hand-in-hand to achieve common 

national high performance objectives to 

maximise resourcing and expertise in 

support of the development of world class 

athletes to achieve international success. 

This Framework is supported by 

significant additional investment in sport 

by the Australian Government. The 2011- 

12 Budget will provide $300 million to 

support the full spectrum of sport from 

grass roots through to elite competition. 

Support by the Australian Government 

will enable a more collaborative long 

term focus to drive reform within 

Australian sport and importantly make 

the connection between Australian’s 

standing on the podium and young 

Australians participating in sport. 

This is an exciting and challenging time 

for Australian sport. The Australian 

Sports Commission looks forward to 

working with all sporting organisations, 

the state and territory institutes and 

academies of sport and state and 

territory departments of sport and 

recreation, to promote access to, 

and participation in, sport across the 

community and support Australia’s 

continued sporting success. 

The Hon. Warwick Smith AM 

Chairman 

Board of the Australian Sports Commission 


President’s Report 

My congratulations go to all 

members of our respective 

National Teams, in particular 

to our Senior Women’s Team 

winning silver in the World Cup 

in Christchurch and also a bronze 

medal in the World League Finals 

in Shanghai, China. 

It is worthwhile noting this is their 

6th medal since the inception of this 

competition in 2004. 

For Australian Water Polo to continue to 

support athletes to successfully achieve 

these levels of performance, podium 

finishes, we must continue to evolve and 

therefore plan for organisational change. 

The Board underwent a governance 

review and skills audit and my thanks go 

to Leanne Barnes for driving this initiative. 

This Review identified a need to appoint 

a Board member with media skills and 

preferably achieve a more equitable 

gender balance. Olympic Bronze medalist 

Amy Hetzel who has extensive media 

experience was appointed and we 

are grateful for her acceptance of the 

appointment. This period also saw the 

appointment of Kay Copeland who was 

elected in November 2010 for the vacant 

position created by the retirement of 

Leanne Barnes. Kay has brought to the 

Board extensive governance and previous 

board experience. 

These changes have enabled the 

Australian Water Polo Board to make 

strategic decisions as to the direction of 

the sport and provide valuable support 

to the CEO. 

Operationally, with the Head Office 

locating to Sydney, we are indebted to 

the ongoing support and infrastructure 

provided to us by NSWIS and their CEO, 

Charles Turner and his staff. 

With London Olympics just around the 

corner, the feedback we are receiving 

from our senior coaches is positive with 

the belief that the teams are better 

prepared at this point in time to that of 

our previous Olympic cycle. We are very 

thankful for the ongoing support of the 

Australian Olympic Committee and its 

President John Coates. 

Congratulations to the Fremantle 

Mariners for taking out the Men’s 

National League Final and to the 

Brisbane Barracudas for their victory in 

the Women’s Final. This season also saw 

the advent of the All Stars Game which 

was the initiative of and funded by Jeff 

Barrow which coincided with the 18’s 

Championship held in Brisbane. The 

Game was played to an extremely high 

standard and to a packed house. We are 

very appreciative of Jeff’s support. 

The National Junior competitions that 

we conducted were again well attended 

and thank you to our Member States and 

their volunteers, our Operations Manager, 

Peter Hobday and lastly but not least, 

to all the parents who accompany and 

support our junior athletes. 

The Hall of Fame Dinner was again very 

successful with Les Nunn, Ian Mills, Chris 

Wybrow, Leanne Barnes and myself 

being inducted into the Hall of Fame. 

Acknowledgements 

We gratefully acknowledge the 

Australian Government through the 

Australian Sports Commission for 

the funding under the Direct Athlete 

Support program to our male and 

female athletes. I would also like 

to thank the staff of the Australian 

Institute of Sport, the State Institutes 

and Academies for the ongoing 

successful relationship that we share. 

Finally, I thank the AWPI Board, CEO 

Chris Harrison, John Whitehouse and 

the staff for their tireless efforts in 

making AWPI the organisation that it is 

and for the support and pathways they 

provide to our athletes as they prepare 

for competition. 

Peter Kerr 

President 


Chief Executive Officer’s Report 

After a full 12 months in the 

position of CEO it is important 

that I acknowledge our 

stakeholders and partners, 

partnerships need to be a 

symbiotic relationship where 

both parties achieve their 

objectives. 

Without doubt, without the invaluable 

financial and intellectual support of 

the Australian Sports Commission 

(ASC) our sport would not enjoy the 

international success that it achieves. 

Important funding has been received 

from the ASC to maintain our programs 

in our core business of high performance 

and additional funding received to 

aid and assist in the development of 

participation programs. 

We enjoy a close and productive 

relationship with our State Institutes 

of Sport and the State Academies that 

provide our athletes with their daily 

training. 

In a recent high performance review it 

was not a surprise to see that athletes 

spend more time with their Institute 

coaches than either with their Club 

coaches or National coach. 

Last year I spoke of the importance of 

providing to our athletes an enduring 

pathway, given that our Mission 

Statement is that “We will be recognised 

and accepted as a successful major 

sporting organisation both in Australia 

and internationally, through its 

astute and planned management, the 

performance of international teams and 

the delivery of water polo at all levels.” 

I have set about with some 

rationalisation, which has included 

moving the finances to Sydney where 

we can utilise the existing first-rate 

infrastructure provided by the New 

South WaIes Institute of Sport. 

My sincere thanks go to Peter Jackson for 

his invaluable assistance and guidance 

throughout this transition. 

The external review of our infrastructure 

was completed and delivered to the 

board. The changes were approved and 

either have already been made or are in 

the process of implementation. 

The National Water Polo League also 

had a comprehensive separate external 

review and our thanks go to Jackie 

Fairweather senior sports consultant 

from the ASC who not only facilitated 

this, but travelled over Australia to obtain 

feedback from all interested parties. 

We look forward to the release of the 

finalised document and the National 

League being integral in our domestic 

high performance plans. 

I would like to thank the President, 

Mr. Peter Kerr and the Board of 

Australian Water Polo for their ongoing 

support, hard work and enthusiasm. 

Chris Harrison 

Chief Executive Officer 


High Performance Report 

The organisation and 

management of the High 

Performance Program was again 

overseen by a High Performance 

Committee comprising 

representatives from the ASC, 

AIS, AWPI and the respective 

national coaches. 

The HPC met quarterly and provided 

excellent support to the national 

coaches in assisting them to achieve in 

most part all Key Performance Indicators 

(KPI’s) across both domestic and 

international activities. 

A High Performance Program Planning 

Workshop co-ordinated and facilitated 

by Jackie Fairweather Senior Sports 

Consultant Organisation Development 

Australian Sports Commission was 

held in November 2010 which not 

only involved members of the High 

Performance Committee but athletes 

and other contributors; the Planning 

Workshop was the genesis for the 

development of a High Performance 

Plan 2011 - 2016 which has 

subsequently been refined with the very 

kind assistance of Iain Brambell Senior 

Sport Partnership Manager Sports 

Planning and Performance Australian 

Sports Commission. 

I have detailed below elements from this 

document, namely: 

Summary 

The Australian Water Polo Incorporated 

(AWPI) High Performance Plan is 

designed to build depth in the National 

Team Program, strengthen the high 

performance delivery network and, 

ultimately, result in sustainable podium 

performances in London 2012, Rio de 

Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games and beyond. 

High Performance Vision 

To be the most successful International 

Water Polo program - from National 

Youth to Senior Teams to facilitate and 

nurture the sport of water polo for the 

enjoyment of all levels of participation. 

System Goals 

1. Producing Australian Champions. 

2. AWPI, its Member Associations and 

National Network (NIN) partners share 

common purposes and objectives, 

strategic and operational plans, policies 

and procedures based on a national 

behaviour federal structure. 

3. The National League is strengthened 

as an important stepping stone to 

National teams. 

4. The number of active referees to increase 

by 50% from 90 currently in 2011. 

5. The number of registered participants 


will increase 25% from the current 

11,200 participants. 

6. AWPI provides the best opportunity 

for competition, training and touring 

structure including individual athletes 

accessing overseas playing and 

training opportunities. 

7. Continued review and refinement of the 

national athlete and coach pathway. 

8. AWPI effectively supports the high 

performance program. 

9. Effective partnerships that promote the 

development of athletes across Australia. 

10. Identification of new research, 

training techniques, information and 

equipment to optimise performance. 

Milestone Performance Goals 

> 2012 Australian Team World and 

Olympic Ranking 

• Senior Women - Podium Finish 

• Senior Men - Top 4 Placing 

• Junior Women - Podium Finish 

• Junior Men - Top 4 Placing 

• Youth Girls - Top 8 

• Youth Boys - Top 8 

> 2016 Australian Team World and 

Olympic Ranking 

• Senior Women - Gold Medal 

• Senior Men - Podium Finish 

• Junior Women - Podium Finish 

• Junior Men - Podium Finish 

• Youth Girls - Top 6 

• Youth Boys - Top 6 

The High Performance Plan is fully 

documented and AWPI has set High 

Performance Aims Timelines for the 

achievement of these targets. 

The current High Performance Program 

for men is a decentralised National 

Training Centre (NTC) based program 

with centres in Brisbane, Sydney, 

Melbourne and Perth supported by 

the SIS/SAS network and an Elite 

Development Centre (ETC) in Adelaide 

again supported by the SIS/SAS network. 

These programs deliver the daily 

training environment for the athletes. 

The athletes attending the centres are 

generally national senior, junior and 

youth squad members. A number of the 

men’s national team continue to play in 

professional leagues overseas. 


The Women’s High Performance 

Program is again a decentralised NTC 

and ETC based program utilising the 

same centres as the men’s program. 

However, in addition, the AIS women’s 

camps-based program permits the 

national squad to train together under 

ideal circumstances. 

Joint Management Committee (JMC) 

agreements form the cornerstone of 

the relationship between the national 

organisation and the SIS/SAS network. 

An important and essential requirement 

for the establishment of any NTC 

program is the commitment the 

member association to support 

the program with an underpinning 

program and unfortunately the quality 

of the underpinning programs vary 

considerably which presents a unique 

challenge for AWPI. 

Water polo, for a relatively low-profile 

sport, enjoys a very comprehensive and 

extensive international program and 

we are indebted to the many national 

federations that host our teams on what 

seemingly is an annual basis. In the 

period under review, our teams made 

10 international tours to attend world 

league events, international tournaments 

and training camp activities. 

AWPI also hosted a very successful 

Preliminary Round of the FINA Men’s 

and Women’s World League in Sydney 

Australia May 2011. 

The international program was arranged 

in most part by our representatives at 

the LEN Calendar Congress held Reykjavik 

Iceland in May 2011 and we are indeed 

grateful of the work done by Tom Hoad 

and Chris Harrison at this congress. 

I have deliberately avoided making 

reference to the performance of our 

teams as others have addressed these 

elsewhere in the report particularly the 

respective coaches. 


It is appropriate to acknowledge the 

support of all funding and support 

agencies that contribute to the High 

Performance Program, namely the 

ASC, AIS, SIS/SAS, AOC and sponsors, in 

particular, Turbo Crotton SA, SOPAC and 

NSWIS; to the national senior, junior, 

youth and girls’ coaches, assistant 

coaches, managers, support staff and 

referees, AIS coaches, managers, support 

staff and the NTC coaches - thank you 

for your dedication and support given to 

our athletes. 

John Whitehouse 

High Performance Manager 

> Australian Government Direct Athlete Support 

Australian Water Polo Inc acknowledges 

and thanks the Australian Government 

through the Australian Sport 

Commission for the funding under the 

Australian Government Direct Athlete 

Support program for the year ended 

30 June 2011 where the amount of 

$272,999.99 was made available to our 

female athletes and $130,000 to our 

male athletes. 


Operations Report 

Insurance 

Insurance cover available for its members, 

clubs and associations includes: 

• Sports Injury 

• Public Liability 

• Professional Indemnity 

• Workers Compensation 

• Directors and Officers Liability 

• Travel Insurance 

• Club Property 

• Club Travel 

AWPI continues to review its risk 

management policies, unfortunately 

with significant claims lodged in past 

years which have exceeded our premium 

paid, our current premiums continue to 

be under some pressure. 

National Championships 

Four age groups of National 

Championships were conducted with 

the cooperation of State Associations 

who continue to show a willingness to 

host these championships on behalf 

of AWPI. It is acknowledged that pool 

space is becoming a critical factor in the 

conduct of these events as pool operators 

endeavour to recover lost revenue from 

their regular users. As the costs of utilities 

rise, so does the pool hire cost, hence 

AWPI has attempted to cover these costs 

through team entry fees. 

The following hosts and teams are to be 

congratulated on their performances in 

the various championships. 

These Championships are made possible 

though the cooperation of the State 

Championship Date Host 

Boys Gold 

Medal 

Girls Gold 

Medal 

2010 20 & Under 6 -11 July, 2010 Victoria NSW Blues NSW Blues 

2011 20 & Under 

18 - 23 January, 

2011 

Associations and the many volunteers. 

Thank you to those people who make 

their time so freely available. 

Following the success of the 16 & Under 

Championships being held for clubs, 

the Board of AWPI has decided that the 

18 & Under Championships will follow 

a similar pattern, hence the 2012 18 & 

Under Championships will be competed 

for by clubs in Canberra, ACT in the week 

following Easter. 

Awards and Hall of Fame 

Presentations 

The third AWPI Hall of Fame and Awards 

dinner at Sydney Olympic Park was 

attended by more than 120 people. 

Six additional inductees joined the 

inaugural nine members in the AWPI 

Hall of Fame were honoured — 

• Leanne Barnes (NSW), 

• Peter Kerr (NSW), 

• Ian Mills (VIC), 

• Les Nunn (WA), 

• Michael Withers (NSW), 

• Chris Wybrow (NSW). 

Presentations were made for the 

following AWPI 2010 awards: 

• Male Athlete of the Year: Sam McGregor 

Western 

Australia 

• Female Athlete of the Year: Victoria Brown 

• Male Junior Athlete of the Year: 

Aaron Younger 

• Female Junior Athlete of the Year: 

Nicola Zagame 

• Coach of the Year: Les Kay 

• Volunteer of the Year: Karen Armstrong 

NSW Blues 

Queensland 

• Referee of the Year: Danny Flahive 

• Club of the Year: Sydney Northern 

Beaches Breakers 

Our congratulations go to Jeanette Gunn 

who was awarded the Harry Quittner 

Medal for her contribution to the 

Australian water polo community. 

The night also saw the men’s and 

women’s Team of the Decade honoured 

for performances from the 2001 

international season until the end of the 

2010 international season. 

The men’s team was made up of Gavin 

Woods, James Stanton, Thomas Whalan, 

Tim Neesham, Trent Franklin, Sam 

McGregor and Nathan Thomas, while 

the women’s team included Emma Knox, 

Gemma Beadsworth, Naomi Castle, 

Bronwen Knox and sisters Melissa Rippon, 

Kate Gynther and Rebecca Rippon. 

Website 

The website was rejuvenated and 

relaunched in December 2010, with a 

more interactive model used for display. 

Regular e-newsletters are distributed 

via email giving an up-to-date report 

on what’s happening. Dave Lyall, AWPI 

Media Manager, is taking a pro-active role 

with clubs to encourage stories about 

players for inclusion on the web site. I 

would like to thank Russell McKinnon for 

his contribution in supporting the web 

site and NWPL media. 

Database 

The National database continues to be 

an important tool in monitoring club 

and team registrations. Victorian Water 

Polo is leading the charge towards online 

registrations and payment of fees online 

with this option available to other State 

Associations, clubs, teams and members. 

I am pleased to report that all State 

Associations are now firmly committed 

to maintaining member information via 

the National database. 


2010 16 & Under 

26 April - 1 May, 


28 September - 

3 October, 2010 

Queensland 

Tasmania 

NSW Blues 

Melville 

Sharks 

Queensland 

Maroon 

Drummoyne 

Red 


I thank Chris Harrison for his support, 

and the National Office staff and the 

many volunteers in the sport. 


22 - 26 April, 


ACT Cronulla Blue Cronulla Blue 

Peter Hobday 

Operations Manager 

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National Development Report 

Nationally over the past twelve 

months all sports have been 

undergoing specific changes to 

their programs. 

The development area is no exception 

with an emphasis on building capacity. 

This was one of the recommendations 

from the Crawford Report that included 

further engagement of our membership 

base and to create and support new and 

existing participation opportunities. 

Along with all other national sporting 

organisations Australian Water Polo 

Inc. was invited by the Australian 

Sports Commission to bid for additional 

funding to create new participation 

programs and to improve capacity across 

the board. 

As a result of a submission, Australian 

Water Polo Incorporated received new 

funding of $100,000 for a participation 

demonstration project. This, it is 

envisaged will enable AWPI and its 

members the ability to assist in building 

capacity. Further specific information 

regarding the new program will be rolled 

out in due course. 

Some of the highlights for the year 

included: 

New Online Coach/Referee 

Course Electronic Surveys 

Through the use of SurveyMonkey two 

new online course evaluation surveys 

have been developed to provide coaches 

and referees the opportunity to provide 

feedback on aspects of our NCAS/NOAS 

training programs. 

Website Update 

Several new changes have been made to 

the development section of the website 

including: 

• A publicised list of nationally 

accredited NCAS/NOAS training course 

assessors in each state. 

• Access to the new online e-learning 

drugs in sport program from the 

Australian Sports Anti-Doping 

Authority (ASADA). 

• New webpage covering mentoring the 

coach and official - includes video clips. 

• The provision of online registration for 

the NCAS Senior Club Coach Course, 

AWPI Flippa Ball resources and access 

to the online coaching knowledgebase. 

Flippa Ball 

Additional resources have been created 

and added to support our existing 

manual, ‘wiki’ and DVD including: 

• Operational templates for state 

associations and their affiliated 

members including: school visits, 

weekly report, mileage use, come n try 

budget, draft business model etc. 

• New marketing resources to support 

the brand included a poster, bumper 

bar sticker and tattoo. 

New National Participation 

Framework 2011-2014 

As previously mentioned I have been 

working on a new program as a result 

of the projected increase in funding 

for participation. The new National 

Participation Plan (NPP) will bring together 

all states and all levels of the game for 

the first time in a nationally coordinated 

strategy. Importantly, the NPP offers a 

coordinated blueprint for children from 

all walks of life and all skill levels. 

The NPP starts with the introduction of 

a new participation program targeted at 

the 5-8 years age group. To date 20 new 

activity cards have been developed for 

use by coaches. Another initiative of the 

NPP sees schools aligned with clubs to 

coordinate playing opportunities. 

The program will also be inclusive covering: 

> Migrant communities & Indigenous 

communities 

Form links with programs for migrants 

and the indigenous community who 

are disadvantaged to introduce them to 

Water Polo. 

> Deaf Community 

Seek opportunities to introduce Water 

Polo to members of the deaf community, 

with a view to not only fielding teams 

in the Deaf Olympics, but to look for 

integration of deaf participants to our 

own hearing-community. 

> Project Connect 

Utilise Project Connect Disability 

program, which will identify strategies 

and activities that will ensure that 

people with disabilities can become 

involved in water polo. 

> Facilities 

Without sufficient access to pool space 

it would be difficult to increase our 

participation base. Currently a major 

majority of the aquatic centres in each 

state are utilised and several are not. 

National Programs 

• New AWPI Training Program Presenter 

Course 

• New AWPI Community Coach Course – 

competency based for delivery to clubs 

or individuals who wish to coach in a 

Flippa Ball program or for use with the 

Australian Sports Commissions Active 

After Schools Community Program 

• Development of a new National 

Officiating Development Framework 

(Draft) 

• NOAS Level 1 Coaching Course updated 

• NCAS High Performance Update Course 

submitted to the ASC for approval 

• AWPI Draft online training program for 

Table Officials 

In closing, I would like to thank the 

following people for their support 

throughout the year: Chris Harrison, 

Peter Hobday, John Whitehouse 

and Hobart office staff, and all state 

associations and their development staff 

for trying to make a difference. 


National Development Manager 


National Media Report 

AWPI engaged Sports 

Communication Australia (SCA) to 

provide media services for the sport. 

After analysing the status of media 

management within AWPI, SCA 

established a media management plan 

and guidelines for State Associations, 

NWPL clubs and other clubs, identifying 

new opportunities for publicity and 

relationship building with the media. 

This included creating a water polo 

specific downloadable Media Kit to 

be used as a ‘self help resource’ by the 

water polo community. 

SCA submitted an application on behalf 

of AWPI for the Federal Government’s 

Women in Sport Media Grant and was 

successful in winning $30,000 to be 

used to promote women in water polo 

through the media. 

This grant is being used in a number of 

ways including producing and distributing 

AWPI’s own TV news content from 

various Aussie Stingers camps and games, 

social media training for players and 

administrators, a consultant to provide 

social media content and promotion of the 

Pan Pacific Championships. 

SCA Managing Director Dave Lyall 

also attended the 2011 FINA World 

Championships in Shanghai and 

provided media liaison for both 

Australian teams, reported on all 

Australian matches and educated 

players on the media. 

Other areas that SCA has focussed on in 

the first six months of its contract with 

AWPI include: 

• The establishment of a social media 

plan, guidelines and implementation 

• The creation of a more robust 

biographical database of elite players 

by profiling members of the senior 

national squads 

• Producing ‘regional’ driven tailor made 

media releases for all members selected 

in Australian teams in all ages groups 

• Increased content and updating of 

the AWPI website and social media 

platforms 

• The creation of monthly blogs by CEO 

Chris Harrison, National Women’s Head 

Coach Greg McFadden and National 

Men’s Head Coach John Fox 

• Media Training of the Senior 

National Teams 

• Improving media education and 

relationships with the sport of 

water polo 

SCA has and will continue to report on 

all AWPI events and competitions as well 

as the national teams 

The outcomes of these areas of 

concentration have resulted in greater 

media coverage for the sport of water 

polo and its players with mainstream 

news coverage in print, radio, online 

and television. 

SCA has also put together a media plan 

for implementation around the 2012 

Pan Pacific Championships, begun a 

London Olympic Games media campaign 

including launching a 40 week “Get to 

know a Stinger” or “Get to know a Shark” 

profiling campaign of members of the 

national senior squads and assisted with 

the submission to the Western Australian 

Government for the 2012 FINA World 

Youth Championships in Perth. 

SCA would like to acknowledge the 

support of the CEO, Board and staff 

of AWPI, the national coaching and 

management staff and the players on 

the senior national teams. 

David Lyall 

Media Manager 


National League Report 

The 2011 season was overseen 

by the NWPL Commission 

chaired by Warren Hawtin 

and supported by Danielle 

Woodhouse and Steve O’Keefe 

as the Elected Commissioners 

while the AWPI nominated 

Commissioners were John Birch 

and Suzie Fraser who replaced 

Chris Harrison. 

The finals series was played at the Sydney 

Olympic Aquatic Centre and saw Brisbane 

Barracudas win its third consecutive 

title by defeating the Cronulla Sharks in 

a penalty shootout in one of the most 

exciting games ever seen in the NWPL’s 

history. Unfortunately, the Victorian Tigers 

could not make it back to back titles, going 

down to a strong Fremantle Mariners side. 

My thanks go to Doc Wulf who 

again this year provided a range of 

comprehensive statistics from every 

aspect of the NWPL season. 

Season Highlights 

• Brisbane Barracudas won their third 

women’s title after finishing third 

following the home and away games. 

• The Fremantle Mariners defeated the 

Victorian Tigers by one goal in a tight 

fought Gold Medal game making it five 

trophies for the Fremantle Mariners. 

• Sydney University Lions’ Alastair Visch 

played a record 374 games 

• Sharan Wheelock of the Fremantle 

Marlins was the first woman to reach 

the 200 games milestone (207 games) 

Award 

Champion 

Men’s Club 

Champion 

Women’s club 

Southern Cross 

Trophy Men 

Southern Cross 

Trophy Women 

Charles Turner Medal 

- MVP Men season 

Debbie Watson Medal 

- MVP season 

Recipients 

Fremantle Mariners 

Brisbane Barracudas 

Fremantle Mariners 

Cronulla Sharks 

Rhys Howden 

(Brisbane Barracudas) 

Bronwen Knox 

(KFC Breakers) 

Tom Hoad Medal 

- MVP Men, finals 

series 

MVP women 

- finals series 

John Whitehouse 

Medal 

- final series referees 

All Star team 

- Men 

All Star team 

- Women 

Highest goal scorer 

- Men 

Highest goal scorer 

- Women 

Rhys Howden 


Kate Gynther 


Daniel Bartels, 

Gabor Boros, 

Andrew Carney, 

Danny Flahive, Noel 

Harrod, Michael 

Hart, Nick Hodgers, 

Nicola Johnson, 

Mark Ridgwell, 

Megan Varlow 

Raf Sterk (KFC 

Queensland Breakers), 

Jamie Beadsworth 

(Fremantle Mariners), 

Richie Campbell 

(UNSW Wests 

Magpies), Chris 

Dyson (Balmain 

Tigers), Rhys 

Howden (Brisbane 

Barracudas), 

Sam McGregor 

(Victorian Tigers), 

Joel Swift 

(Fremantle Mariners) 

Kelsey Wakefield 

(Brisbane Barracudas), 

Mieke Cabout 

(Cronulla Sharks), 

Keesja Gofers 

(Sydney University 

Lions), Elly Goodwin 

(Hunter Hurricanes), 

Bronwen Knox 

(KFC Queensland 

Breakers), 

Glencora Ralph 

(Longmont 

Fremantle Marlins), 

Rowena Webster 

(Victorian Tigers) 

Rhys Howden 


- 67 goals 

Mieke Cabout, 

(Cronulla Sharks) 

- 82 goals 

NWPL Management 

Referees 

My special thanks are due to Michael 

McNeill and Michael DeFina for the 

way in which they have approached 

the development and appointments of 

the referees for the 2011 season. We 

now have a group of dedicated referees 

who are proud to be refereeing in the 

National League. 2012 will see further 

developments with the appointments of 

neutral delegates to games. 

Sponsors and Supporters 

The NWPL is fortunate to have the support 

of many sponsors and the clubs also 

have their own sponsors and we thank 

the numerous League and club sponsors 

whose assistance and support is greatly 

appreciated by the NWPL and clubs. 

These include the Australian Sports 

Commission, Turbo Water Polo, Moves Travel, 

Mikasa Sports Australia, Purnell Trophies 

and Corporate Vehicle Management. 

Australian Water Polo Inc continued its 

support through the High Performance 

program and executive assistance 

through the National Office. 

NWPL Review 

A review of the NWPL was undertaken 

by the Australian Sports Commission 

with a report having been presented to 

AWPI at the end of January 2011. We 

look forward to seeing the outcomes 

from this report. 


The following are acknowledged for 

their contribution: 

• All NWPL players, coaches, team 

management and club officials. 

• Andrew Ryan and his Judiciary committee. 

• Doc Wulf for his amazing statistical 

analysis of the NWPL 

• Warren Hawtin, Chairman NWPL 

Commission, Danielle Woodhouse, 

Steve O’Keefe, John Birch and Suzie 

Fraser as NWPL Commissioners. 

• Michael DeFina, referee appointments 

officer and NWPL referees 

• John Fox, National Men’s coach and Greg 

McFadden, National Women’s coach. 

Peter Hobday 

General Manager NWPL 


Senior Men’s Report 

The 2010/11 season began with 

the World League/World Cup 

tour to Europe. 

A squad of 15 players was selected to 

represent Australia. 

FINA World League Super Finals, 

Nis, Serbia, July: 

Mitchell Baird, Ritchie Campbell, John 

Cotterill, Joel Dennerley, Rhys Howden, 

Sam McGregor, Rob Maitland (C), 

Anthony Martin, Billy Miller, 

Nick O’Halloran, James Stanton, 

Joel Swift, Aaron Younger. 

Head Coach: John Fox. Assistant 

Coaches: Paul Oberman, Frank Otto. 

Manager: Gary Rydberg. Osteopath: 

Andrew Gott. Referee: Michael Hart. 

FINA World Cup, Oradea, 

Romania, July-August: 

Mitchell Baird, Ritchie Campbell, John 

Cotterill, Joel Dennerley, 

Rhys Howden, Sam McGregor, 

Rob Maitland (C), Anthony Martin, Billy 

Miller, Nick O’Halloran, 

James Stanton, Joel Swift, Aaron Younger. 

Head Coach: John Fox. Assistant Coach: 

Paul Oberman. Manager: Gary Rydberg. 

Osteopath: Andrew Gott. 

Referee: Michael Hart. 

Some of the more significant positive 

aspects of the tour included: 

• Defeat of world ranked number 2 

(Spain) and number 3 (Croatia) in 

world league. 

• Top 4 finish in world league 

The areas of significance that were most 

disappointing included: 

• 6th finish at world cup; not being able to 

back up performance from world league 

• Extra-man attack. Fell way below our 

revised target of 50% 

• Lack of focus in attack with a strong 

CF presence 

• Inability to convert clutch goals which 

would normally be scored. 

The anticipated availability and possible 

return of some senior players in the 

next 2 years will bolster our stocks, but 

what is just as important is the valuable 

experience gained by our ‘young’ team. 

Notable performances came from: 

• Aaron Younger who was on his 1st 

senior European tour and performed 

exceptionally well, especially at CB. 

• Sam McGregor had a fantastic tour, 

especially given that he was returning 

from a year lay-off. He will continue to find 

his niche on the international arena to 

be a dominant player in the next 2 years. 

• Rhys Howden again proved to be a 

dangerous player on the left hand side of 

the pool, and defensively is very sound. 

• Billy Miller provided many 

opportunities in attack through his 

driving and counter attack prowess and 

is beginning to establish himself as a 

consistent international performer. 

• Both goal keepers who had excellent 

tours, with James Stanton having 

his best tournament (World Cup) for 

a number of years. Joel Dennerley 

played a very strong support role both 

in and out of the water for James and 

the team. When Joel was called upon 

to step in for James, he performed 

consistently and competently gaining 

the respect of the opposition and trust 

of our defence. 

I noted two comments which I feel sum 

up our tour this year: 

• On the Italian water polo website our 

team has been described as the revelation 

team of the world league tournament, 

with a strong counter attack and some 

exciting young prospects. 

• The Serbian team commented that we 

are doing the right thing in bringing 

the youth through and they believe we 

will continue to improve until London 

whereas other teams may be already 

peaking and don’t have the quality or 

depth of juniors to step into senior 

international water polo in such a 

short time. 

The opportunity for players to play 

professionally overseas was again a 

highlight of the mens program. 

15 players from various levels of the men’s 

program gained contracts with various 

clubs in Europe and colleges in USA. 

These included Aaron Younger (Szeged 

Hungary), Anthony Martin (Sabadell 

Spain), Rob Maitland (Barcelona Spain; 

Kings Cup champions), Johnno Coterill 

(Chios Greece), Aidan Roach (Zak Serbia), 

Tyler Martin and Samuele Avalone 

(Camogli Italy), Joszef Balasc (UTS 

Hungary), Richie Hyden (Seville Spain), 

Joel Dennerley, Jeremy Davies and Mace 

Rapsey (USC USA; NCAA champions), 

Perry Short (Berkeley USA), Matt Gronow 

and Fraser Bunn (Santa Barbara USA). 

These players provided weekly updates 

and reports of matches played which 

made for great reading on AWPI website. 

Following the world league and world 

cup review it was decided that we 

needed to address one specific problem 

that had been an issue for national 

men’s teams since 2008. With the 

unavailability of experienced and proven 

international CF’s and the identified 

weakness of our junior players in this 

position a proposal to conduct CF 

specific camps was tabled. In an effort 

to improve our performances at CF and 

to also ‘fast track’ potential international 

players for this position we instigated 

a series of 3 CF camps in the 3 major 

NTC’s of Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. 

This trial proved to be very successful 

and the benefits of which were evident 

in competition throughout the national 

league and international season. 

Many thanks to the specialist coaches 

involved (see acknowledgments) 

October 2010 

The NSWIS/QAS trip to Japan and 

establishment of reciprocal tours was 

a new initiative that was born from 

the desire to provide fringe national 

squad members an opportunity for 

international competition. It has proven 

to be a resounding success with great 

collaboration established between 

Australia and Japan. We will be continuing 

to foster this relationship and provide 

game opportunities in future years. 

Immediately after the NTC challenge I 

was fortunate to attend the final weeks 

of the USA finals to witness USC take 

away the NCAA championship for the 

2nd year running. It was a thrill to see 

our 3 Australian boys captained by Joel 

Dennerley take out the championship. Joel 

was also awarded with all-American status. 

November 2010 

NTC challenge- another high quality 

event this year hosted on the Gold Coast. 

NSWIS won their 1st title after a close 

fought game with WAIS, with former 

title holders QAS finishing in 3rd place. 


A feature of the competition was the 

international flavour that New Zealand 

added with their inclusion into the 

competition, providing our NTC teams 

with an extra game in the round stages. 

Following the NTC challenge a squad of 

27 players was announced to contest the 

2011 international season. 

> Goalkeepers 

J Dennerley (NSW/USC USA), J Hahn 

(NSW), C Zveken (NSW), L Quinlivan (WA). 

> Centre Forwards 

M Baird (NSW), J Beadsworth (WA), 

J Davie (NSW/USC USA), J Howden (QLD), 

J Swift (WA). 

> Centre Backs 

R Campbell (NSW), T Cleland (WA), 

R Maitland (QLD/Barcelona), A Martin 

(QLD/Sabadell), T Martin (NSW/Camogli 

Italy), A Younger (WA/Szeget Hungary). 

> Right Side 

J Cotterill (NSW/Chios Greece), 

B Edwards (VIC), M Emery (NSW), 

J Gilchrist (VIC), B Miller (QLD), A Roach 

(NSW/Zak Serbia). 

> Left Side 

S Avallone (NSW/Camogli Italy), S Cody 

(NSW), R Howden (QLD), D Lawrence (WA), 

S McGregor (VIC), N O’Halloran (WA). 

Volvo Cup- Miskolc 

February 2011 

The Australian Men’s Team assembled 

in Budapest in preparation for the Volvo 

Cup - a 4 team International Tournament 

in Miskolc 2 hours north of Budapest. The 

young Sharks team comprised of 4 players 

drawn from the Australian National 

League and 11 others playing with clubs in 

Europe and from the US Collegiate system. 

The team was Joel Dennerley, Aidan Roach, 

Chris Dyson, Jeremy Davie, Rob Maitland 

(Captain), Anthony Martin, Aaron Younger, 

Tyler Martin, Joel Swift, Johnno Cotterill, 

Mace Rapsey, Lachlan Hollis, Carl Zvekan, 

Joszef Baczer, Dan Young. 

The tournament was a fantastic 

opportunity to bring together our 

overseas based players along with 

providing opportunities for younger 

players to experience high level 

international competition. 

In a fantastic effort the Aussie Sharks 

surfaced just behind Hungary and 

ahead of Germany and Canada to 

take second place. In the final game 

of this tournament against world 

number 7 Germany, and with the 

experience of Rob Maitland and Anthony 

Martin missing due to Spanish club 

commitments, the Sharks went into 

this encounter as underdogs. However 

with an aggressive start to the game 

the Sharks jumped the Germans and 

hung on to the one goal margin, bearing 

testament to my belief in the increased 

depth within the national squad. 

May 2011 

Boot Camp held at Jervis Bay - our first 

assembly of the complete national 

squad (with the return of all overseas 

players) did not occur until May. In 

addition to regular training at NSWIS, 

the squad also underwent a two day 

bonding/boot camp at the Jervis Bay 

naval base. The players and staff who 

attended all reported positive reviews 

and experiences that they felt would 

certainly be beneficial for the team in 

the upcoming international season. The 

players have expressed that they are very 

keen to undertake this type of activity in 

preparation for London 2012. 

March 2011: All stars game 

A great addition to the NL fixture, born 

through the suggestion of Jeff Barrow, to 

showcase the best talent in Australia in 

a similar manner to what happens in the 

professional sporting leagues in the USA. 

This was without doubt the highest 

quality game played in Australia this 

season. The skill and pace of the game 

was equivalent to an international game 

and both players and supporters agreed 

it was a resounding success. 

The inaugural victors of the Andrew 

Kerr Cup were the Southern team after 

clinching victory in overtime. 

Following the game an All Stars team 

of 13 players was announced based 

upon performances in the match. In the 

future this will become the all-stars team 

presented at the annual NL awards dinner. 

The 2011 team was Eddie Slade, Sam 

McGregor, Brian Alexander, Rhys 

Howden, Gavin Woods, Richie Campbell, 

Thomas Whalan, Joel Swift, Billy Miller, 

Daniel Lawrence, Mitch Baird, Tim 

Cleland, Mitch Emery. 

World League 

> Preliminary rounds 

The Australian Sharks men’s water 

polo team finished with a perfect eight 

wins from as many games in the two 

preliminary rounds held in Auckland 

and Sydney. Over the course of the two 

rounds we took the opportunity to 

blood quite a few junior players, using 

27 players across the two weeks. Once 

again it is testament to the depth of 

our programs that we were able to go 

through the tournament undefeated. 

Europe tour and WL Finals 

> Pescara 

The overall result and fourth place in 

Pescara was not quite as expected or 

hoped. Assembling the squad together 

for the first time since July last year 

presented cohesion difficulties and it’s 

always a challenge after such a period of 

absence to get all players onto the same 

wavelength in terms of playing as a team. 

> Budapest 

During the week in Hungary we devoted 

a lot of time on our attack and defensive 

systems and they seemed to be coming 

together well in terms of player 

understanding and execution. However 

in the one exhibition game V Hungary, 

we really struggled to again find any 

cohesion in attack or defense under 

game pressure which was concerning. 

> Florence 

After a gruelling week of training in 

Hungary we headed to Florence, Italy for 

the FINA World League finals where we 

finished in 6th place. 

In the first game we lost any chance of 

upsetting Croatia with a shocking 4-0 

first quarter. Our inability to convert at 

least as many opportunities in front of 

goals as our opposition cost us dearly. 

We started much better against Canada 

in Game 2 but had some defensive lapses 

this time allowing them a sniff in the 

second quarter. We effectively iced the 

game after half time which was pleasing. 

Shooting decisions and execution was 

our killer in the third game against 

Montenegro. Defensively we had a 

superb game conceding just four goals 

(2 in extraman and 2 penalties) but we 

could not put the crunch shots away 

when it counted. 

This became more evident as we 

eventually lost the game on penalties. 

Game 4 was against Italy and again a poor 

defensive period in the second quarter 

allowed them to get a three goal buffer 

before we came storming home only to miss 

our last extraman attacking play to tie it up. 


In Game 5 against China we played 

superbly for three and a half quarters. 

We had a three minute lapse in the 

second period and conceded three goals 

and then we only conceded one for the 

remainder of the game. Attack wise 

we were much better - probably due 

to more time to set and player belief 

in their ability to put it past the lesser 

credentialed goal keepers. 

The final game against Montenegro was 

tragic, after breaking out to a 5-2 lead 

we missed a one on none opportunity to 

go to a 6-2 lead at half time. We allowed 

Montenegro to get back into the game 

as players seized up in front of goals in 

the second half. This has to be a mental 

issue, as we saw so many fantastic 

opportunities we created go begging 

whilst allowing Montenegro to capitalise 

with easy goals at the other end. 

The team was Joel Dennerley, Richie 

Campbell, Tim Cleland, Mitchell Baird, 

Robbie Maitland, Anthony Martin, 

Johnno Cotterill, Sam McGregor, Gavin 

Woods, Rhys Howden, Billy Miller, Aaron 

Younger, Aidan Roach. 


The list is long and there are many 

people who work tirelessly behind the 

scenes to ensure success of our program. 

Those who I would like to highlight include: 

Chris Harrison CEO for his ongoing 

support of the men’s program 

and approving the long list of 

recommended/ proposed activities that 

are deemed highly important if we are 

going to be successful internationally. 

John Whitehouse, like Tom, he is held in 

high esteem with the international water 

polo community. John liaises endlessly 

with FINA and national federations 

to ensure that our national teams 

receive every opportunity to travel and 

compete to the best of our ability and 

opportunities. John also performed many 

of the administrative tasks associated 

with team camps, travel and competition. 

Tom Hoad, highly respected in the world 

of water polo and has extensive contacts 

and knowledge of the happenings 

throughout the world. Tom is fantastic in 

gaining opportunities for competition and 

common training when teams look to travel 

overseas and prepare for major events. 

At our request he attends the calendar 

conference every year to ensure Australian 

teams are entered into international events 

and training agreements. 

Australian Sports Commission for their 

continued support by way of direction, 

guidance and funding. Many thanks also 

to our sport liaison officers, Deb Waser, 

Mel Backhouse and Wanda Sipa who 

have been forever helpful in their ongoing 

support for the program and myself 

personally in developing and refining my 

coaching role to be more successful. 

Paul Oberman, assistant coaching role. 

WAIS coach. 

Frank Otto, who has been extremely 

valuable in his European liaison role and 

as assistant coach for the national team. 

Chris Wybrow, NSWIS coach and 

assisted during world league preliminary 

rounds in Sydney. 

Simon Daley, QAS coach and assisted 

national team at world league. 

Dalibor Maslan VIS and Eddie Denis SASI 

for their assistance at national camps. 

Jon Harmer, for his managerial work 

throughout the year on various tours. 

Jon has been rewarded with a spot 

on the 2012 Olympic team as section 

manager for men’s water polo. 

Garry Rydberg stepped with ease into 

the manager’s role for the World League/ 

World Cup tour. 

Nathan Thomas’ assistance with 

organizing boot camp and always 

happy to share knowledge on how 

the national program is progressing. 

Still very highly respected throughout 

Europe and a valuable contact to have in 

player negotiations and placements into 

European clubs. 

Andrew Stanford sports medicine 

coordinator. Ensured player monitoring 

and servicing of players was adequate. 

Andrew Yanitsas sports science 

coordinator. Coding of games for 

coaches, player review. 

Jeff Barrow, All stars game funding and 

organization. Without Jeff’s considerable 

support this game would never have 

eventuated. 

David Lyall recently appointed media 

liaison officer who has worked to provide 

much appreciated media exposure and 

coverage of the sport. 

Referees’ Commission and in particular 

Daniel Flahive and Michael Hart who 

toured with the team. 

Barry Grant, goal setting/leadership 

seminars for the national squad. 

Andrew Gott, traveling physio to world 

league finals. Andrews experience as a 

past national team player was a great 

compliment to his high level of treatment 

provided and the players appreciated 

having another voice of knowledge 

concerning international water polo. 

Adam Smith, physio world league 

preliminary rounds. 

CF Specialist training camps coaches 

Mark Oberman, Andrew Kerr and 

Daniel Marsden. 

National league clubs and coaches for 

their ongoing support and cooperation 

with national team requirements. 


State associations, for aligning their 

competitions and projected pathways 

with that of national team requirements. 

AWPI board, for their approval allowing 

the preparation of the team for 

international competition and the 

ongoing support for the men’s program. 

NTC programs, for providing the daily 

training environment for national 

squad players across all teams, and 

their ongoing support of the national 

scholarship program. 

Scott Voysey, organized boot camp and 

led with inspiration during camp. 

Lance Johnson, Pro Annox. Sponsor and 

provider of product for the men’s team. 

John Fox 

Senior Men’s Head Coach 

Adam Richardson 

B91 Junior Men 

European Tour – July 2010 

The national junior boys contested two 

European tournaments in Macedonia 

and Russia in July and August, finishing 

a creditable third place in both events. 

The squad of 15 players included 10 of 

last year’s World Championship party, 

with five new players - Thomas Dayman 

from SA, Sam Quinn from WA, Hamish 

Cuthill, Clayton Whittaker and Connor 

Martin from NSW joining the squad. 

For all of these boys it was their first 

international water polo experience. 

Player missing from last year were Wade 

Eames and Michael DeGail from NSW 

due to scholastic studies, Matthew Giles 

from QLD due to an injured shoulder 

and Aaron Younger was touring with the 

National Men’s Team. 

Training Montenegro 

We started the tour with a training 

camp against the Montenegro U20 side 

who were preparing for their European 

Championships. This was a true baptism 

of fire for the inexperienced boys who 

struggled at times. Morning trainings 

consisted of tactical and technical 

preparation (extra-man attack, defence, 

zone defence, counter-attacking 

skills etc) followed by strength and 

conditioning training in the pool weights 

room and/or swimming sessions. 

Evening trainings consisted of the games 

versus the Montenegro U20 national 

team, gaining solid match practice. 

Training Croatia 

This training camp consisted of morning 

sessions on our own doing swimming 

fitness and skills trainings. The 

afternoons saw joint training sessions 

with the YUG Dubrovnik junior teams, 

which was not of a great standard. YUG 

were great hosts and provided us with 

sports physiologists to assist with testing, 

the boys completed many tests and we 

have the results which compare our boys 

to the Croatian team. A highlight from 

this part of the tour was an opportunity 

to play a practice game against the 

Croatian Men’s team which was a 

humbling experience for most players. 

Skopje Tournament 

The first tournament was a four-nation 

event in Skopje, the capital city of 

Macedonia. The tournament teams were 

not U20 teams. We played the senior 

Macedonian Team a Serbian B side and 

a Macedonian U20 side. While third 

place was a good result, it was extremely 

disappointing to have dropped a very 

winnable game to the Serbian B side on 

the last day. There were, however, many 

positives to arise from the tournament, 

notably five players tasting their first 

international games. We were able to 

catch the teams by surprise with our 

strong counter-attack game, which 

set up some big attacking score lines, 

especially in the last game against 

Serbia B. The zone defence executed 

throughout the entire tournament 

was very effective and no team scored 

more than one goal against us while 

playing zone, which met our game plan 

of forcing a low percentage shot late 

in the opposition attack allowing us to 

counter attack was very effective. Blake 

Edwards was the stand-out Australian 

player at this tournament, displaying 

excellent leadership. Both goal keepers 

kept us in touch with the older teams in 

the tournament making many 

excellent saves. 

Training Turkey 

The other activity undertaken on the 

tour was a training camp conducted 

in Istanbul, Turkey. We had three 

days training and preparing for the 

tournament in Kazan. We played a 

practice game against the Turkish 

national team where we started poorly, 

before playing some good water polo in 

the late quarters. The boys had a great 

time at the grand bizarre buying many 

gifts for family and friends back home. 

Kazan Tournament 

We then ventured to Kazan in Russia 

to contest a five-nation tournament. 

The format of this was a round-robin 

style, with all teams meeting each other 

during the four days. Despite being a 

U20 tournament, the competition was 

definitely stronger than Macedonia with 

highly ranked European teams Serbia, 

Greece and Italy, joining Russia and 

Australia. Third place in such a highly 

ranked tournament was a terrific result, 

but we should have done better. The 

loss to Italy was a disappointment for 

the boys who did not stick to the game 

plan. Many appreciative comments were 

passed on the high standard and level of 

skill that the team exhibited. However, 

I believe the major positive to come out 

of the tournament was the belief the 

players found in their ability and more 

importantly the belief that they can 

beat any team if they stick to the game 

plan. After humiliating loss to Italy, 

the confidence the boys to beat Russia 

and gain a draw with Serbia helped to 


smash any of the mental barriers or fears 

they may have held about playing to a 

structured game plan. The most valuable 

Australian player for this tournament as 

determined by the management was 

Edward Slade, who performed superbly 

in goals in the three games he started 

as keeper (James Clark played the other 

one). He was named the goalkeeper of 

the tournament. Sam Quinn, who backed 

up his strong performance in Skopje with 

another fine display especially in playing 

the centre-back role. 

Conclusion 

Obviously results are what everyone 

looks at and from that end we had some 

terrific tournaments. Our third placing 

in the Russian tournament was our best 

result in terms of the calibre of teams 

that were competing. A draw in the final 

game against Serbia was just not enough 

to win the tournament, which featured 

two of the top three teams to finish at 

last year’s world championships. 

To give a high number of players 

exposure to competition at the 

international level, over a prolonged 

period (five weeks). I also wanted to 

identify which players were capable of 

maintaining consistent form over this 

intensive period. 

To have players understand and practise 

the systems that will be utilised in our 

world championship assault. 

To play with belief and confidence! 

The current squad is an excellent group 

of dedicated athletes. 

Benefits Derived From Tour 

• Confidence and the belief we can beat 

anybody. 

• Confidence in the game-plan. 

• Exposure to international competition 

over an extended period. 

• The opportunity to “blood” new players 

and experiment with tactics and 

positional variations. 

Perth Camp – 3 Days after U20s 

The training camp in Perth was the 

first stage of preparation for the World 

Championships in August 2011. We 

invited 20 boys to the training camp 

where we selected a smaller squad 

to tour Europe later in the year. All 

morning sessions were fitness and skills 

preparation while all afternoon trainings 

were physical preparation (weights) and 

game and extra man practise. During 

this training camp we played games 

against the born 93 and the senior 

centre forwards team which gave us 

some strong competition. 

Sydney Camp – 3 Days after 

National League 

The training camp in Sydney was the 

last stage of preparation for the World 

Championships. We invited 18 boys to 

the training camp where we selected 

the squad to tour Europe later in the 

year. All sessions were skills and game 

preparation. We did not have all of the 

players at this camp as three players 

were at the world league preliminary 

rounds in New Zealand and players 

were still not back from professional 

duties overseas. We selected 15 boys to 

tour with three reserves. 

• Goal Keeper: Edward Slade (NSW) 

• Goal Keeper: James Clark (WA) 

• Centre Forward: James (BJ) Howden (QLD) 

• Centre Forward: Jeremy Davie (NSW) 

• Centre Back: Aaron Younger (WA) 

• Centre Back: Sam Quinn (WA) 

• Centre Back: Matt Giles (QLD) 

• Centre Back: Connor Martin (NSW) 

• Left Hander: Wade Eames (NSW) 

• Left Hander: Adam Polivka (NSW) 

• Driver/Shooter: Clayton Whittaker (NSW) 

• Driver/Shooter: Blake Edwards (VIC) 

• Driver/Shooter: Paul Sindone (NSW) 

• Driver/Shooter: James Fannon (WA) 

• Driver/Shooter: Nick Redbond (WA) 

Non Travelling Reserves 

• Nick Godfrey (QLD) 

• George Ford (WA) 

• Perry Sort (WA) 

• Michael DeGail (NSW) 


On a final note, I would like to thank 

David Swift (team manager), Garry 

Ryberg (team manager) and Daniel 

Flahive (referee) for their contributions 

to the national junior team program. 

A considerable amount of time was 

volunteered by David and Garry and in 

organising camps and the international 

tour, while Daniel was heavily involved 

in all training sessions with opponents 

and the tournaments. Their support 

throughout the tour was invaluable. 

Australian Youth boys B93 

2010/2011 

During the period from July 2010 to June 

2011, unfortunately I was not able to get 

organised more than one training camp 

for that period of time being extremely 

busy with running the National Training 

Centre in Melbourne for both genders 

and being involved with Women’s 

National Program. Apart from the 

training camp that has been held in 

Perth in January 2011 straight after 

the U20s National Championship, my 

original plan was to tour overseas with 

the boys again even being non travelling 

year for that age group and to run few 

state training camps with respective 

state members while on the trip in 

certain states with Women’s National 

League Tigers Team. The reason that I 

haven’t been able to complete what was 

planned is that I had been appointed to 

tour with Australian National Women’s 

team at the FINA World Championship 

in Shanghai. Although the respective 

year of activities has not been extremely 

busy I am very pleased to say that the 

training camp in Perth went very well 

considering that we were doing it in 

conjunction with National Men’s Centre 

Forward Camp. The boys were working 

hard those three days of camp being 

three hours in the water twice a day. We 

were focusing on implementing the new 

efficient way of movements through the 

water into the game situation and also 

defensive structure of extra man play. 

The whole group had a team presence by 

being in full Australian national outfit, 

at all times. At the end of the camp 

the players were debriefed about their 

performances at the camp and what is 

expected from them in the future and 

what areas they need to improve. 

Dalibor Maslan 

B93 Junior Men 


Senior Women’s Report 

After our very good 

performances in the World 

League Finals in 2010 where 

we won the silver medal but 

lost to the USA twice in penalty 

shootouts (once in the round 

and the other in the final), we 

were looking to build on this 

performance in the World Cup in 

New Zealand as we had gained 

qualification for this through the 

withdrawal of Africa & Brazil. 

In preparation for this we had a training 

camp with the USA at the AIS in Canberra 

during August, which was followed by 

the 10th Anniversary Sydney Olympics 

Tournament, in Sydney at Homebush. 

This was an extremely strong 

tournament with the top 5 teams from 

the World League participating, USA, 

Greece, Russia, China and Canada. We 

went through the rounds undefeated 

with our only blemish being a 10-10 

draw with Canada. More importantly 

we beat the USA 10-9 in the rounds 

and 10-8 in the final to make up for our 

previous 2 penalty shootout losses. 

World Cup, Christchurch 

New Zealand 

We went into the World Cup very 

confident of being able to defend our 

title that we won back in 2006 at Tianjin, 

China. We hadn’t lost a game of water 

polo in 2010 during normal playing 

time, however we had lost 3 penalty 

shootouts, twice USA and China. 

We went through the rounds undefeated 

beating New Zealand 17-4, USA 7-5 

and Russia 10-8 to top our group. This 

then put us up against Greece in the 

quarterfinals who have been a bit of a 

bogey team for us over the last decade. 

We accounted for them quite easily 11 

to 7 which then set us up for a semi final 

clash with Russia. After being ahead 8-5 

and 11-8 the Russians fought back with 

the help of a lopsided penalty count to 

take the game to 11-10 with two minutes 

remaining before we held on for the win. 

This put us in the final against the USA 

and there was a lot of talk around the 

pool and on the websites that we were 

the favourites, even though the USA 

had not lost a major competition since 

the Beijing Olympics. The USA came out 

firing and were not going to give up their 

mantle easily and scored 2 goals in their 

very first two attacks. Australia looked 

unsettled and nervous and played 

accordingly. The game was all but over at 

half time with the USA leading 6-0. 

To the players credit they did not 

lie down and came out and scored 

two goals themselves at the start of 

the second half with their first two 

attacks. Unfortunately on our third 

attack a penalty shot was stopped by 

the USA goalkeeper, which halted our 

momentum. From then on we created 

numerous opportunities but rushed and 

poor shot selection did not allow us to 

bridge the gap apart from a late goal in 

the 4th quarter to go down 6-3. 

This was a disappointing way to end the 

2010 International season, as we did not 

play to our potential in the biggest game 

of the year. The pleasing part was that 

we were now obviously the second best 

team in the world and in a good position 

at the half way mark of the Olympic cycle. 

Institute Challenge 

The 6th running of the annual Institute 

Challenge was held at the AIS in November 

and was won by Queensland for the 

third time 10-8 against NSWIS. The VIS 

competed for the 1st time as a squad and 

won their first medal with a 7-6 win over 

WAIS. The Composite team finished 5th. 

Canada Cup 

Due to injuries, work commitments 

and giving some players valuable 

international experience we took 

a relatively inexperienced team to 

Montreal for a training camp and the 

Canada Cup. 

The team performed very well defeating 

China 5-4, Italy 15-11, and Canada 11-5 

in the rounds, then in the semi final we 

beat Italy again 13-9 to advance to the 

final against China. 

Unfortunately the Chinese were too 

strong and captalised on their chances 

on their way to defeating us 7-9. 

2010 Internationals played 

Played 25 games. Won 19, drew 4 (lost 3 

in penalty shoot out), lost 2. 

Of these 22 games 14 of them were 

against teams ranked higher than 

us (2009 rankings) in which we lost 

2 in regulation time and 3 in penalty 

shootouts. 

Country Played Won Draw Lost 

USA (1) 6 3 

2 (2 lost 

P/S) 

CAN (2) 2 1 1 0 

RUS (3) 5 5 0 0 

GRE (4) 2 2 0 0 

ITA (9) 2 2 0 0 

CHN 

(10) 

4 2 

1 (lost 

P/S) 

KAZ 2 2 0 0 

JPN 2 2 0 0 

2011 Training Camps 

Training camps were held in early 

January (AIS), Jan/Feb (Gold Coast), 

March (Sydney) and April (AIS). On top 

of this we had the Italian team come 

out for a training camp/test series in 

Perth during Feb were we played 5 test 

matches. We won 13-10, 16-7, 13-9 and 

10-7 while drawing the 2nd test 11-11. 

We would like to thank the Dolphins, 

Fremantle and Torpedoes clubs for 

hosting the games as they all went out 

of their way to help promote the tests 

and big crowds attended all the games. 

World League 

The international season started 

immediately after the National League 

finals and we picked 13 players to fly to 

Auckland for round 1. We beat NZ 16-5, 

Japan 16-3 and China 11-10. 

We then replaced 4 senior players for the 

rounds in Sydney and went through the 

rounds undefeated beating Australian juniors 

14-6, Japan 14-5, NZ 10-6 and China 9-7. 

As part of our World League Finals 

preparation we attended the Kirishi Cup 

in Russia were we finished 2nd to the 

host nation. Our results were USA 7-7, 

Greece 14-11, Russia 10-19, Hungary 15- 

15 and Kazakhstan 16-7. 

Italy was our next stop for a training 

camp and one off test with the Italians 

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at their new national team-training base 

in Ostia. We spent five days of training 

and defeated them 11-10 in the test 

match before heading to Tianjin, China 

for the World League Finals. 

The squad consisted of 15 players who we 

rotated through the finals based on their 

performances. We started very strongly 

with a 14-6 demolishing of Spain, before 

beating Canada 10-8. This meant the 

winner of the Russian game would qualify 

first in our group and unfortunately a 0-3 

first quarter put us behind the eight ball 

and we couldn’t recover losing 9-12. Our 

quarterfinal win against Greece 10-8, 

set us up for a semi with the USA. We 

started strongly and held a 6-5 halftime 

lead, but unfortunately a 0-2 3rd quarter 

gave the USA the break they needed and 

went on to beat us 7-8 after we levelled 

at 7-7 in the 4th. 

This then put us in the Bronze medal 

match against hometown favourites 

China. We played our most inexperienced 

team resting Bronwen Knox & Glencora 

Ralph for this match to give our juniors 

the opportunity to perform under the 

highest pressure. The team played very 

tough defence especially in the 2nd half 

as we turned a 3-4 deficit at halftime 

into a 7-5 victory. An outstanding team 

performance, which set us up well for the 

up coming World Championships for the 

Seniors & Juniors. 

This was the 6th medal since the 

inception of the Women’s World League 

back in 2004 with the inaugural year 

and 2006 being the only time we haven’t 

medalled. 

Throughout 2010 -11 the following 

programs were run for our 2nd tier 

senior players and junior players:- 

World Student Games 

A training camp was held in Sydney 

following the National League Finals 

series. This camp, held in conjunction 

with the Born 91 National Women ran 

for 6 days over the period 7 - 12 May. 

The focus of the camp was to define the 

Team responsibilities and expectations, 

test player fitness, begin the selection 

process for the WSG team, introduce the 

team tactics, and play training games 

versus the Junior Women. 

Eddie Denis would Iike to thank Jenny 

Liessmann (manager), Peter Szliagyi 

and Ryan Moar for helping organise the 

training camps in Sydney. 

Born 91’s 

The Australian Junior Women’s Water 

Polo Program had a successful 12-month 

campaign, which included two overseas 

tours, three training camps in Australia 

and the opportunity to play on the World 

League Preliminary Rounds in Sydney. 

In July 2010 the Team travelled to 

Auckland, New Zealand and Los Angeles, 

California. The team had a successful 

test series with the New Zealand Senior 

Women’s and collected a silver medal in 

a tournament in Los Alamitos. 

In September 2010 the team travelled 

to Russia and to Greece. In Zlatoust, 

Russia they played four test matches 

against the reigning World Champions 

losing three and winning one. In Athens 

they contested a nation tournament 

and finished in 2nd place losing final to 

Russia 8-11. This was followed with 6 

test matches against Greece winning 3, 

drawing 1 and losing 2 by 1 goal. 

The preparation for the FINA Junior 

Women’s World Championships 

started with a training camp at the AIS, 

Canberra after the Institute Challenge 

with 26 players. This was followed with 

another training camp in Perth, January 

after the National Junior Championships 

with the Born 93’s National Squad. 

After the National League Final we 

had a selection camp with 16 players 

in Sydney with the World University 

Games Squad. They then played 

in the second round of the World 

League preliminaries in Sydney due to 

Kazakhstan withdrawing and performed 

very creditably winning two games 

against Japan 12-7 and New Zealand 

13-8 and losing to both the Australian 

Senior team 6-14 and China 7-12. 

Peter Szilagyi would Iike to thank all 

coaches, athletes, officials, volunteers 

and parents for supporting the program. 


Born 93’s 

The 12 month period from July 1, 2010 

– June 30, 2011 was a particularly busy 

one for the National Born 1993 or Later 

Girls Squad. 

In July 2010 a squad of 15 players toured 

Greece and The Netherlands taking 

part in two training camps and two 

international competitions over a three 

week period. 

In the 5 team Pythia Cup we finished 

2nd after beating Serbia 21-3, France 

10-2 drawing with Greece 10-10 and 

losing to Hungary 8-12. 

The Butterfly Trophy in Emmen, Holland 

was contested by 6 nations in which we 

finished 5th after losing to Hungary 17- 

20, Greece 9-12, Italy 10-11, Holland 7-9 

and defeating Canada 11-10. 

In March 2011 the team had a ten 

day tour to Hawaii for an invitational 

tournament hosted by the University of 

Hawaii were they defeated University of 

California – East Bay 9-8 and University 

of California – San Diego 10-7 and losing 

to Canada Senior women 7-15, San 

Diego State University 8-10, University of 

Southern California 7-15 and University 

of Hawaii 8-10. 

Ryan Moar would like to thank 

Tracey Mirabito (manager) for her 

tireless efforts in assisting with all 

arrangements for tours plus training 

camps and other administrative tasks 

throughout the year. Also, thanks to 

both of the referees that toured with the 

squad – Andrew Carney (European Tour) 

and Gabor Boros (Hawaii Tour). 


Born 94’s 

The born 94’s or Youth Squad 

participated in the following activities:- 

In July 2010 attended the Pan Pac’s in 

Auckland, New Zealand. This was the 

squad’s first main event together as a 

Team. During the Pan Pacs we selected 

two even teams who competed one 

week against U20’s (born 91’s) and the 

second week against U18’s (born 93’s). 

This was then followed up with a test 

series and a joint training camp with 

Youth New Zealand Team. Overall this 

tour was very beneficial and the teams 

first milestone in the road to Perth. 

Aleks Osadchuk toured around Australia 

and conducted state based training 

camps in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane 

and Perth. These training camps are 

a fantastic opportunity to see the 

athletes in their own environment. We 

have used slightly extended squads 

for greater athlete exposure while 

teaching individual skills and technical 

requirements to help prepare all players 

for the Youth squad. 

From these training camps we selected 

15 players for the European tour to Italy 

and Hungary for a training camp and to 

Greece for the Itea Cup, in July. 

Aleks Osadchuk would Iike to thank all 

coaches, athletes, officials, volunteers 

and parents for supporting the program. 

For all our programs to run so smoothly 

there is a lot of people that I definitely 

need to thank as without their efforts, 

commitment and passion we certainly 

would not be as successful as we have 

been over the past 7 years. 

A huge thank you must go to the following: 

• To all the athletes who participated 

in all the programs from the seniors 

through to the born 94’s. Unfortunately 

some of you were not selected in 

certain teams or squads, while others 

were rewarded for their performances 

and dedication. Without all of you 

there to help each other develop and 

push your teammates to the extremes, 

the pursuit of everyone becoming 

better players none of our results 

would have been possible. 

• Lynne Morrison and Jenny Liessmann 

have done a fantastic job managing 

the teams over the last 12 months. 

Without their efforts the tours would 

not have run so smoothly and the 

team’s performances would have 

been affected. 


• Liz Steet, Laura Schwab, James Trotter 

(physios) and Grace Bryant (doctor) 

for their continual fantastic efforts in 

keeping the players fit, healthy and 

always allowing us to get our best 

team in the water. 

• My assistant and SIS/SAS coaches 

throughout 2010-11 Greig Richardson 

(VIC), Ryan Moar (NSWIS), Aleks 

Osadchuk (QAS), Peter Szilagyi (WAIS), 

Eddie Denis (SASI) and Dalibor Maslan 

(VIS). They have the responsibility of 

working with the girls on a day-to-day 

basis in their home states and when 

we come together for training camps/ 

tours/tournaments take on a wide 

range of responsibilities that play a 

huge part in preparing the athletes to 

perform at their best. Without these 

guys the program definitely wouldn’t 

work or be as successful. 

• The Sports Medicine staff working 

with the SIS/SAS programs and 

Andrea Mosler our Sports Medicine 

Coordinator for once again doing a 

fantastic job in organizing and keeping 

all the service providers informed and 

working towards a common goal. 

But most recently for all the work she 

has put into the Athlete Monitoring 

system, which allows us to keep a daily 

check on all the athlete’s health, which 

has proved invaluable. 


• The Sports Science staff working 

with the SIS/SAS programs and Ted 

Polglaze, Sally Clark our Sport Science 

Coordinators over the last 12 months 

for doing a superb job in keeping the 

squad and coaches abreast of the latest 

training techniques and planning of their 

physical preparation. Laura Garvican has 

come on board in the absence of Sally 

Clark who is on maternity leave and has 

done a fantastic job. 

• Debra Waser and the AIS, Iain 

Brambell and the ASC, John Coates 

and AOC for their continued support 

and help. Without their support it 

would be impossible to run a world 

class international program and 

win international medals. You all 

continually have looked after our 

program beyond our expectations. 

• The AIS and SIS/SAS programs support 

staff for their day to day help in running 

the programs and in particularly the 

strength and conditioning coaches 

lead by Julian Jones, the physiologists 

lead by Ted Polglaze and Sally Clark, 

the nutritionists led by Greg Cox, the 

psychologists lead by Alex Gorman in 

2010 and Kirsten Peterson in 2011, 

the skill acquisition staff led by Adam 

Gorman and the performance analysis 

staff led by Tamara Kerford. They play a 

huge part in helping the athletes be the 

best-prepared team in the world and are 

always looking for the edge to make the 

difference between success and failure. 

• The National League coaches, who 

have been very supportive and 

understanding of the National 

team’s commitments and the need 

for the team to have training camps 

throughout the season. 

• Chris Harrison, John Whitehouse and 

the AWPI office for their full support in 

helping the program run smoothly. 

• AWPI board for being supportive 

and understanding the difficult 

circumstances that the team goes 

through with the changing of so many 

players after the Olympics. 

• Reg Hatch for his personal advice 

and guidance in helping be become a 

better coach. 

• Second last but not least to Karen 

Buffier for the tremendous job she 

does in the everyday administration 

of the AIS program. With Karen being 

on maternity leave for a good part of 

the year, Cathy Perre filled in and did 

a fantastic job. Without their help & 

support my job would be a nightmare. 

• Finally to the best wife in the world 

Sonia and my beautiful children Rebel 

and Cooper. Without your full support 

and love I certainly would not be able 

to devote the time to try and help the 

girls achieve their dreams. 

Thank you. 

Greg McFadden 

Women’s Head Coach 


Hall of Fame Dinner 2011 

The 3rd Annual Hall of Fame Dinner was held at Novotel Sydney Olympic Park on Friday 6th May 2011 

Les Kay 

2010 Coach of the Year 

Danny Flahive 

2010 Referee of the Year 

Nicola Zagame 

2010 Junior Female Player of the Year 

Sam McGregor 

2010 Male Player of the Year 

Victoria Brown 

2010 Female Player of the Year 

Hall of Fame 2011 Inductees 

Back Row (L to R) Les Nunn, Ian Mills, Chris Wybrow 

Front Row (L to R) Leanne Barnes, Michael Withers, Janine Kerr (for Peter Kerr) 


Women’s Team of the Decade 

Naomi McCarthy, Bronwen Knox, Gemma Beadsworth, Rebecca Rippon 

Men’s Team of the Decade 

Gavin Woods, Sam McGregor, Thomas Whalan, Trent Franklin, Nathan Thomas 


Athletes’ Commission Report 

The Athletes Commission over 

the past 12 months has provided 

an active voice of the athletes in 

our sport to the AWPI Board and 

its executive staff. 

The current Athletes Commission was 

formed after the Beijing 2008 Olympic 

Games. The commission comprises Nikita 

Cuffe (2004 & 2008 Olympian), Bronwyn 

Knox (2008 Olympian), Toby Jenkins 

(2004 Olympian), Thomas Whalan 

(2000, 2004 & 2008 Olympian) and Trent 

Franklin (2004 & 2008 Olympian). 

The commissioner’s roles as outlined in 

the charter are to: 

• Advise the board of AWPI on any 

matters relating to water polo which 

impact on Water Polo Athletes; 

• Represent the Athletes on AWPI’s board 

through the Athletes Commission 

Chairman who is a voting member of 

the board; 

• Nominate representatives from among 

their members to represent Australian 

Water Polo Athletes on AWPI as 

requested from time to time; 

• Nominate athletes for election by 

ballot to the Australian Olympic 

Committee Athletes’ Commission; 

• Provide leadership and direction on 

matters that directly relate to Water 

Polo Athletes. 

In the last year we have worked through 

a consultative process to review and 

where relevant provide recommendation 

to the board. The following are some of 

the issues represented. 

National Water Polo League 

(NWPL) – Review 

Through the National Water Polo 

League Review the members of the 

Athletes Commission provided their 

insight into the existing structure of 

the league and many proposed some 

potential improvements. We feel it is 

such a critical component of the elite 

pathway for our athletes. The continual 

improvement of the elite pathway is very 

important for the success of our athletes 

on the world stage. 

We would like to thank all stakeholders 

for their contribution to this also. There 

is much focus on the athletes which is 

important for the sport. It is however 

important to thank the clubs, states and 

community that allow us to perform at 

our best. 

We would like to thank the Australian 

Water Polo Inc. Board and its CEO 

for engaging the review and we look 

forward to the future of the peak 

competition in Australia. 

Elite Athlete Pathway 

We have recently seen changes to the Elite 

Athlete Pathway, through the changes 

of the U18 competition. The Athletes 

Commission after some robust discussion 

provided its feedback to the CEO relating 

to views of the athletes. The ability to 

have this feedback sought from the CEO 

and the Board is a great asset to both the 

athletes and the sport as a whole. 

The Athletes’ Commission would like to 

encourage any athletes who have any 

issues, concerns or ideas they may have 

relating to the sport. We look forward to 

working with Australian Water Polo and 

its athletes to further develop our sport 

on a domestic and international stage 

over the coming year. 


Chairman 

Australian Water Polo Athletes’ Commission 



Referees’ Commission Report 

The Commission has continued 

to provide recommendations to 

the AWPI Board on referees to 

be included on the FINA list and 

in relation to appointments to 

International Tournaments. 

This year has also seen the Commission 

liase with National Senior Coaches to 

provide Referees for NTC tournaments 

and National training camps. 

2011 FINA Referees: Noel Harrod, Daniel 

Flahive, Nicola Johnson, Nick Hodges, 

Andrew Carney and Megan Varlow. 

2012 FINA Referees: Daniel Flahive, 

Andrew Carney Nicola Johnson, Nick 

Hodges, Daniel Bartels, Megan Varlow 

and Gabor Boris. 

The commission wish to thank and 

congratulate Noel Harrod on many years 

of service to Australian and International 

Water Polo. Noel will continue to referee 

in Australia. 

National League 

During 2011 we built on our group of 

delegates and would like to thank Greg 

McFadden and John Fox for allowing 

the institute coaches to handle this 

important role. We’d also like to thank 

the institute coaches for their consistent 

efforts. I know that many referees 

appreciated post game feedback from 

coaches who they respect. 

We want to ensure that we develop 

referees each season and having 

appropriately qualified Delegates is an 

important aspect of the assessment and 

development process. 

The commission will continue to 

approach suitably qualified delegates 

to undertake referee assessment and 

oversee the correct running of National 

League games. 

We also hope that coaches are prepared 

to provide their home delegate with a 

copy of the game video, if appropriate. 

Many coaches understand the benefit of 

referee development therefore we would 

be happy for them to add constructive 

comments for the Delegate’s use. 

National Age Championships 

We have made a concerted effort in 

2011 to ensure we have a commissioner, 

FINA List Referee, or National League 

Referee at all championships to act 

as Technical Director. We believe this 

an important role as many referees 

appreciate the regular assessment 

and value the referee structure and 

organisation. 

FINA List Referees are required each year 

to make themselves available for one of 

these tournaments. 

2011 Current Commission 

Members 

Michael McNeill, Michael Hart, Mike 

Defina, Scott Schweickle and Phil Scales. 

Financial Assistance for National 

League and FINA List Referees 

A number of FINA List referees asked 

for touring shirts that they could give 

as presents to other referees and we 

provided NL with polo shirts to wear to 

NL games. The commission would like to 

thank Chris Harrison for supporting this 

initiative. 

We would like to thank John 

Whitehouse, Chris Harrison and Peter 

Hobday for their assistance in 2011 and 

look forward to 2012. 

Michael McNeill 

Chairman 

Australian Water Polo Referees’ Commission 


National Capitation 2011 

senior junior school flippa affiliate total 

Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female TOTAL 

QLD 191 164 283 1122 33 91 75 106 7 16 589 1499 2088 

NSW 932 663 750 855 124 133 319 297 45 37 2170 1985 4155 

ACT 61 48 147 122 2 4 210 174 384 

VIC 582 229 294 257 26 7 902 493 1395 

TAS 25 19 99 73 159 211 11 4 294 307 601 

SA 52 29 83 50 3 8 138 87 225 

WA 587 379 273 270 340 303 3 2 1203 954 2157 

NT 

TOTALS 2430 15312 1929 2749 316 435 734 706 97 78 5506 5499 11005 

3961 4678 751 1440 175 11005 

% of Total Gender 

44% 28% 35% 50% 6% 8% 13% 13% 2% 1% 

% of Total 

22% 14% 18% 25% 3% 4% 7% 6% 1% 1% 50% 50% 

2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 

No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % 

QLD 2563 21.5 2424 20.0 2492 21.7 2730 21.7 2806 25.0 2088 19.0 

NSW 5510 46.1 5349 44.1 5100 44.4 5048 40.1 3925 35.0 4155 37.8 

ACT 179 1.5 334 2.8 160 1.4 248 2.0 326 2.9 384 3.5 

VIC 1147 9.6 1145 9.4 1253 10.9 1347 10.7 1338 11.9 1395 12.7 

TAS 533 4.5 533 4.4 525 4.6 704 5.6 683 6.1 601 5.5 

SA 226 1.9 238 2.0 219 1.9 273 2.2 234 2.1 225 2.0 

WA 1725 14.4 2049 16.9 1742 15.2 2253 17.9 1896 16.9 2157 19.6 

NT 61 0.5 61 0.5 NIL 

TOTAL 11944 12133 11491 12603 11208 11005 

QLD 

NSW 

ACT 

VIC 

TAS 

SA 

WA 

NT 


National Championship Results 2010/11 

Men’s National League 

February - May 2011, Finals Sydney 

1 Fremantle Mariners 

2 Victorian Tigers 

3 Sydney University Lions 

4 Brisbane Barracudas 

5 Uni NSW Wests Magpies 

6 KFC Queensland Breakers 

7 Balmain Tigers 

8 Hunter Hurricanes 

9 Drummoyne Devils 

10 UWA Torpedoes 

11 Fyfe Adelaide Jets 

12 Cronulla Sharks 

20 Years & Under Junior MeN 

Melbourne, July 2010 

1 New South Wales Blues 

2 Victoria 

3 Queensland 

4 Western Australia 

5 South Australia 

20 Years & Under Junior MeN 

Perth, January 2011 


2 Queensland 

3 Western Australia Gold 

4 New South Wales Waratahs 


6 Western Australia Black 

7 Victoria 

18 & Under BoYS 

Brisbane, April - May 2011 



3 Victoria 

4 Queensland Maroon 


6 Queensland White 



9 Australian Capital Territory 

10 Tasmania 


Hobart, October 2010 

1 Melville Sharks 


3 Melbourne Collegians 

4 UNSW Wests Black 

5 UWA City Beach 

6 Cronulla Blue 



9 Sydney University 

10 Dolphins 

11 Melville Saints 

12 Adelaide United 

13 Adelaide Vikings 

14 KFC QLD Breakers 

15 Cronulla Black 

16 UNSW Wests White 


18 Tasmania 

19 Sydney Northern Beaches 

20 Richmond 


Canberra, April 2011 


2 KFC Breakers 


4 City Beach Bears 

5 Drummoyne Devils Red 




9 UNSW Wests 

10 Drummoyne Devils Black 

11 Alstonville 

12 Ovens & Murray 


14 City Beach Red 

15 Tasmania 

16 Balmain 







National Championship Results 2010/11 

Women’s National League 

February - May 2011, Finals Sydney 


2 Cronulla Sharks 

3 Victorian Tigers 

4 Fremantle Marlins 

5 Sydney University Lions 

6 KFC Queensland Breakers 



9 Uni NSW Killer Whales 

10 UWA Torpedoes 

11 Drummoyne Devils 

12 Fyfe Adelaide Jets 

20 Years & Under Junior Women 

Melbourne, July 2010 


2 Queensland 


4 NSW Waratahs 

5 Victoria 


20 Years & Under Junior WOMen 

Perth, January 2011 

1 Queensland 



4 Victoria 



18 & Under GiRLS 

Brisbane, April - May 2011 

1 Queensland Maroon 





6 Queensland White 


8 Victoria 


Hobart, October 2010 

1 Drummoyne Devils Red 

2 Sydney Northern Beaches Blue 


4 Sunshine Coast 



7 Dolphins 

8 Brisbane Girls Grammar School 

9 UNSW Killer Whales Black 

10 KFC QLD Breakers 

11 Brisbane Barracudas 

12 Stuartholme 


14 Sydney Nth Beaches White 


16 Melville Saints 

17 UNSW Killer Whales Yellow 


19 Essendon 

20 Tasmania 

21 Triton 

22 Drummoyne Devils Black 


24 NYP Dragons 


Canberra, April 2011 


2 Melville 


4 Rivercity 

5 City Beach Bears 

6 Ovens & Murray 

7 UNSW Killer Whales 

8 Dolphins White 

9 KFC Breakers 


11 Hunter Hurricanes 

12 Stuartholme 

13 Tasmania 

14 City Beach Red 



17 Essendon 


19 Dolphins Blue 





National Team Results 2010/11 

Senior Men 

FINA World League Super Finals, Nis, Serbia, 

July, 2010 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Points 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 

Mitchell Baird, Ritchie Campbell, 

Stephen Cody, John Cotterill, 

Joel Dennerley, Rhys Howden, 

Sam McGregor, Rob Maitland, 

Anthony Martin, Billy Miller, Nick 

O’Halloran, Aidan Roach, James 

Stanton, Joel Swift, Aaron Younger. 

Head Coach: John Fox. 

Assistant Coaches: Paul Oberman, 

Frank Otto. 

Manager: Garry Rydberg. 



Australia 10 (S McGregor 3, 

R Howden, R Campbell 2, 

R Maitland, A Martin, J Swift) 

Croatia 7. 

Australia 19 (B Miller 4, N 

O’Halloran, R Howden 3, J Swift, 

A Younger, S McGregor, M Baird 2, 

R Campbell) South Africa 4. 

Serbia 8 Australia 6 (A Younger, 

S McGregor 2, J Cotterill, A Martin). 

Serbia 9, Australia 6, Croatia 3, 

South Africa 0. 

Quarterfinals: Australia 6 

(R Howden 2, N O’Halloran, 

A Martin, S McGregor, A Younger) 

Spain 5. 

Group 1-4 Semifinals: 

Montenegro 8 Australia 6 

(A Martin 2, R Campbell, 

S McGregor, J Cotterill, B Miller). 

Bronze medal: Croatia 9 Australia 

7 (B Miller 3, A Younger 2, 

S McGregor, R Howden). 

Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, 

Australia, USA, Spain, China, 

South Africa. 

Senior Men 

FINA World Cup, Oradea, Romania, 

July-August, 2010 

Team 

Mitchell Baird, Ritchie Campbell, 

John Cotterill, Joel Dennerley, 

Rhys Howden, Sam McGregor, 

Rob Maitland, Anthony Martin, 

Billy Miller, Nick O’Halloran, 

Aidan Roach, James Stanton, 

Joel Swift, Aaron Younger. 


Assistant Coach: Paul Oberman. 

Manager: Garry Rydberg. 



Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Points 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 

Senior Men 

Volvo Cup, Miskoich, Hungary, 


Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Points 

Joszef Balczer, Johnno Cotterill, 

Jeremy Davie, Joel Dennerley, Chris 

Dyson, Lachlan Hollis, Rob Maitland, 

Anthony Martin, Tyler Martin, 

Mace Rapsey, Aidan Roach, 

Joel Swift, Dan Young, 

Aaron Younger, Carl Zvekan. 


Assistant Coach: Frank Otto. 

Hungary 8 Australia 4 (J Cotterill 

2, J Davie, A Younger). 

Australia 9 (A Younger 4, 

J Cotterill, J Davie, C Dyson, 

A Martin, AJ Roach) Canada 7. 

Australia 7 (J Cotterill 2, C Dyson, 

J Swift, AJ Roach, M Rapsey, 

L Hollis) Germany 6. 

Hungary 6, Australia 4, 

Germany 2, Canada 0. 

Senior Men 

FINA World League, Asia/Oceania Round 1, 

Auckland, May 2011: 

Team 

Spain 9 Australia 7 (S McGregor 

3, R Campbell, A Martin, 

A Younger, B Miller). 

Romania 11 Australia 9 (B Miller 

3, R Campbell, S McGregor 2, 

R Maitland, A Younger). 

Australia 26 (B Miller, A Younger 

4, A Martin, R Campbell 3, 

S McGregor, J Swift, R Howden, 

N O’Halloran, J Cotterill 2, 

R Maitland, M Baird) Iran 4. 

Group A: Spain 6, Romania 4, 

Australia 2, Iran 0. 

Quarterfinals: Serbia 12 Australia 

9 (R Howden, A Younger 2, 

R Campbell, N O’Halloran, 

R Maitland, S McGregor, B Miller). 

Semifinals: Group 5-8: Australia 

10 (R Campbell, S McGregor, 

A Younger, B Miller 2, R Maitland, 

R Howden) China 6. 

Play-offs: 5th & 6th: Romania 9 


A Martin, R Campbell). 

Serbia, Croatia, Spain, USA, 

Romania, Australia, China, Iran. 

Richard Campbell, Timothy 

Cleland, Blake Edwards, 

John Hahn, James Howden, 

Rhys Howden, Daniel Lawrence 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Senior Men 


Sydney, May 2011 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Final 

Points 

Sam McGregor, Billy Miller, 

Nicholas O’Halloran, 

Luke Quinlivan, Joel Swift, 

David Will, Daniel Young. 

Head Coach: John Fox. Assistant 

Coach: Paul Oberman. 

Manager: Jon Harmer. 

Referee: Danny Flahive. 

Australia 22 (D Lawrence, S 

McGregor, J Swift 3, BJ Howden, 

T Cleland, B Edwards, D Young 2, 

R Campbell, R Howden, B Miller, 

N O’Halloran, D Will) New Zealand 4. 

Australia 11 (R Campbell, T 

Cleland, R Howden, B Miller 2, 

BJ Howden, D Lawrence, J Swift) 

Kazakhstan 7. 

Australia 15 (R Campbell 3, 

BJ Howden, R Howden, 

S McGregor, J Swift, B Edwards 2, 

B Miller, D Will) China 7. 

Australia 8 (B Miller 3, B Edwards, 

R Howden, S McGregor, 

N O’Halloran, D Young) Japan 6. 

Mitchell Baird, Richard Campbell, 

Steven Cody, Joel Dennerley, Chris 

Dyson, Mitchell Emery, Trent 

Franklin, Rhys Howden, Tyler 

Martin, Billy Miller, Adam Polivka, 

Aiden Roach, Thomas Whalan, 

Gavin Woods, Carl Zvekan. 


Assistant Coach: Chris Wybrow. 


Referee: Daniel Bartels. 

Australia 11 (R Howden, C Dyson, 

R Campbell 2, M Baird, B Miller, 

S Cody, G Woods, T Martin) 

Kazakhstan 5. 

Australia 22 (S Cody, M Baird 4, 

R Howden 3, C Dyson, G Woods, 

A Polivka, A Martin 2, A Roach, 

M Emery, T Whalan) New Zealand 3. 

Australia 12 (T Franklin 4, T 

Whalan 3, G Woods 2, B Miller, 

T Martin, C Dyson) Japan 10. 

Australia 9 (A Roach, R Campbell, 

R Howden, M Baird 2, T Whalan) 

China 5. 

Australia 24, China 17, Japan 12, 

Kazakhstan 7, New Zealand 0. 


Senior Men 

European Tour, 

June 2011 

Team 

Mitch Baird, Richie Campbell, Tim 

Cleland, Johnno Cotterill, Joel 

Dennerley, Rhys Howden, Sam 

McGregor, Rob Maitland, Anthony 

Martin, Billy Miller, Luke Quinlivan, 

Aidan Roach, Joel Swift, Gavin 

Woods, Aaron Younger. 


Assistant Coaches: Paul 

Oberman, Frank Otto. 


Referee: Daniel Flahive. 

Senior Men 

International Tournament, Pescara, Italy, 


Italy 11 Australia 3 (R Campbell, 

Day 1 

B Miller, A Roach). 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Placings 

Croatia 11 Australia 9 (B Miller 3, 

A Roach, R Howden, J Swift, 

R Campbell, T Cleland, R Maitland). 

Germany 9 Australia 7 (R Campbell 

3, R Maitland, A Martin 2). 

Croatia, Italy, Germany, Australia. 

Senior Men 

Friendly International, Kaposvar, Hungary, 


Senior Men 

FINA World League Super Final, Florence, Italy, 


Croatia 12 Australia 6 (B Miller 2, 

Day 1 R Campbell, G Woods, R Howden, 

A Roach). 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 

Hungary 13 Australia 3 (J Cotterill, 

R Howden, A Younger). 


R Campbell, J Cotterill, G Woods 

2, T Cleland, A Martin, J Swift, 

A Roach) Canada 8. 

Montenegro 8 Australia 5 (R Howden 

2, M Baird, A Roach, A Younger) in 

penalty shootout. FT: 4-4. 

Italy 7 Australia 6 (B Miller 2, 

S McGregor, A Younger, A Martin, 

R Howden). 


R Howden 3, R Campbell, 

J Cotterill 2, A Younger, 

R Maitland, A Martin) China 4. 

For 5th & 6th: Montenegro 8 

Australia 7 (S McGregor, 

A Younger 2, R Campbell, 

R Howden, B Miller). 

Serbia, Italy, Croatia, USA, 

Montenegro, Australia, Canada, 

China. 

bOrn ‘91 Men 


July-August, 2010 

Team 

Jeremy Davie, Thomas Dayman, 

Blake Edwards, James Fannon, BJ 

Howden, Anthony Martin, Adam 

Polivka, Sam Quinn, Nick Redbond, 

Perry Short, Paul Sindone, Edward 

Slade, Clayton Whittaker. 

Head Coach: Adam Richardson. 

Manager: David Swift. 


International Match, Cavtat, Croatia, 

July 2010 

Australia 12 (A Polivka, 

BJ Howden, B Edwards, T Dayman 

2, A Martin, J Davie, P Short, 

P Sindone) Cavtat 10. 


International Tournament, Skopje, 

Macedonia, July 2010 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Points 

Australia 12 (B Edwards 3, 

J Fannon, A Polivka, J Davie, 

P Sindone 2, P Short) Macedonia 

Juniors 8. 

Macedonia 11 Australia 3 

(A Polivka, B Edwards, J Davie). 

Serbia B 8 Australia 5 (J Fannon, 

A Polivka, A Martin, C Whittaker, 

P Sindone). 

Macedonia 9, Serbia B 6, Australia 

3, Macedonia Juniors 0. 


International Tournament, Kazan, Russia, 

August 2010 

Australia 8 (A Polivka 3, J Davie 2, 

Day 1 BJ Howden, C Whittaker, 

P Sindone) Greece 4. 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Placings 

bOrn ‘93 boys 



Team 

Italy 12 Australia 7 (A Polivka 2, 

J Davie, P Sindone, N Redbond, 

T Dayman, B Edwards), Australia 

12 (J Davie 4, P Sindone, J Fannon, 

T Dayman, A Martin, A Polivka, 

P Short) Russia 7. 

Australia 9 (B Edwards 2, P Short, 

J Davie, BJ Howden, C Whittaker, 

S Quinn, P Sindone) Serbia 9. 

Serbia 10, Italy 9, Australia 7, 

Russia 0, Greece 0. Goalkeeper of 

tournament: Eddie Slade (AUS). 

Gabriel Addley, Luca Altieri, 

Jayden Basha, Alex Bennie, 

Billy Christensen, Daniel Egan, 

George Ford, Stewart Greenbank, 

Matthew Hannan, Ryan Marnell, 

Gordon Marshall, 


Slovakia Cup, Novaky, Slovakia, 


Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Final 

Points 

France 11 Australia 10 (L Altieri 

4, M Perrott, J Smith 2, A Bennie, 

T Sinclair). 

Hungary 16 Australia 4 

(G Marshall 2, L Altieri, A Bennie), 

Slovakia 12 Australia 6 (L Altieri, 

G Marshall 2, A Bennie, M Perrott). 

Croatia 11 Australia 6 (L Altieri, 

G Marshall, A Bennie, S Greenbank, 

R Marnell, J Smith), Australia 11 

(A Bennie, N Power, G Ford 2, 

J Basha, G Marshall, S Greenbank, 

M Hannan, M Perrott) Turkey 9. 

Serbia 11 Australia 4 (G Marshall 

2, A Bennie, M Perrott). 

Croatia 12, Serbia 10, Slovakia 8, 

Hungary 6, France 4, Australia 2, 

Turkey 0. 


Mithat Hantal Memorial Tournament, 

Istanbul, Turkey, July 2010 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Placings 

Australia 8 (L Altieri, A Bennie, 

D Egan, S Greenbank, M Hannan, 

M Perrott, N Power, T Sinclair) 

Slovenia 4. 

Serbia 5 Australia 3 (A Bennie 2, 

M Perrott), Australia 10 (L Altieri, 

N Power 2, D Egan, M Hannan, 

M Perrott, R Marnell, J Smith, 

T Sinclair) Turkey B 4. 

Turkey A 8 Australia 7 (A Bennie, 

J Smith 2, L Altieri, D Egan, 

G Marshall), Romania 10 

Australia 5 (J Smith 2, M Perrott, 

M Hannan, D Egan). 

Serbia, Turkey A, Romania, 

Australia, Slovenia, Turkey B. 


International Tournament, Acireale, Italy, 


Hungary 8 Australia 5 (M Perrott 

Day 1 

2, S Greenbank, J Basha, N Power). 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Matthew Perrott, Nathan Power, 

Jayden Smith, Tyler Sinclair. 

Coach: Dalibor Maslan. 

Manager: Duncan Greenbank. 

Referee: Rowan Woodburn. 

USA 11 Australia 7 (A Bennie, 

J Smith 2, M Perrott, M Hannan, 

G Ford), Italy 9 Australia 2 

(A Bennie, M Perrott). 

Australia 10 (J Smith 4, A Bennie, 

M Perrott 2, M Hannan, 

G Marshall) Germany 8. 


Day 4 

Day 5 

Final 

Placings 


International Tournament, Mulhouse, France, 

July-August 2010 

Slovakia 6 Australia 3 (A Bennie, 

Day 1 

M Hannan, M Perrott). 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Placings 

France 10 Australia 9 (A Bennie 5, 

M Perrott 2, N Power, G Marshall). 

Australia 10 (A Bennie, 

G Marshall 3, M Perrott 2, 

S Greenbank, J Smith) Turkey 6. 

Slovakia, France, Australia, Turkey. 

senior women 

Auspole-Longmont 10th Anniversary 

Tournament, Sydney, Australia, August 2010 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

France 10 Australia 7 (A Bennie 3, 

S Greenbank 2, J Smith, 

G Marshall). 

Australia 8 (M Perrott 3, N Power 

2, J Smith, G Ford, G Marshall) 

Montenegro 7. 

Italy, USA, Hungary, Australia, 

Montenegro, France, Germany. 


International Friendly, Stuttgart, Germany, 

August 2010 

Australia 10 (L Altieri 3, A Bennie, 

G Marshall 2, J Basha, G Ford, 

M Hannan) Germany 8. 

Zoe Arancini, Lea Barta, Gemma 

Beadsworth, Isobel Bishop, 

Alicia Brightwell, Victoria Brown, 

Jemma Dessauvagie, Keesja 

Gofers, Kate Gynther, Bronwen 

Knox, Holly Lincoln-Smith, Jane 

Moran, Glencora Ralph, Mel 

Rippon, Sophie Smith, Ashleigh 

Southern, Kelsey Wakefield, 

Rowena Webster, Nicola Zagame. 

Head Coach: Greg McFadden. 

Assistant Coach: Ryan Moar. 

Manager: Lynne Morrison. 

Physiotherapist: Liz Steet. P 

Psychologist: Alex Gorman. 

Referees: Andrew Carney, Nick 

Hodgers. 

Australia 15 (N Zagame 4, 

G Ralph, J Moran, A Southern, 

H Lincoln-Smith 2, S Smith, 

B Knox, R Webster) Greece 7. 

Australia 10 (B Knox, A Southern 

3, R Webster 2, G Beadsworth, 

G Ralph) USA 9. 

Australia 10 (A Southern 3, 

S Smith, Z Arancini 2, I Bishop, 

B Knox, G Ralph) Canada 10. 

Australia 13 (B Knox 3, H Lincoln- 

Smith, S Smith, J Moran, R Webster 

2, Z Arancini, M Rippon) Russia 6. 

Final 

Points 

Day 5 

Final 

Placings 

senior women 

XV FINA World Cup, Christchurch, New 

Zealand, August 2010 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Points 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 

MVP 

senior women 

Canada Cup, Montreal, Canada, 

December 2010 

Team 

Australia 7, USA 7, Russia 6, China 

3, Canada 3, Greece 2, NSWIS 0. 

Gold medal: Australia 10 

(N Zagame 3, B Knox 2, 

A Brightwell, J Moran, R Webster, 

Z Arancini, M Rippon) USA 8. 

Australia, USA, Russia, China, 

Greece, Canada. 


Beadsworth, Victoria Brown, 

Bronwen Knox, Holly Lincoln- 

Smith, Jane Moran, Glencora 

Ralph, Mel Rippon, Sophie Smith, 

Ashleigh Southern, Rowena 

Webster, Nicola Zagame. 




Physiotherapist: Liz Steet. 



G Beadsworth, N Zagame 3, S 

Smith 2, H Lincoln-Smith, 

J Moran, B Knox, R Webster, 

G Ralph) New Zealand 4. 

Australia 7 (B Knox 3, 

G Beadsworth 2, S Smith, 

N Zagame) USA 5. 

Australia 10 (R Webster, G Ralph, 

N Zagame 2, G Beadsworth, 

J Moran, B Knox) Russia 8. 

Group B: Australia 6, USA 4, 

Russia 2, New Zealand 0. 

Quarterfinals: Australia 11 

(G Beadsworth 3, R Webster, 

G Ralph, N Zagame 2, B Knox, 

A Southern) Greece 7. 

Semifinals, Group 1-4: Australia 

11 (N Zagame 3, G Beadsworth, 

B Knox, A Southern 2, J Moran, 

G Ralph) Russia 10. 

Gold medal: USA 6 Australia 3 

(G Beadsworth, B Knox, N Zagame). 

USA, Australia, China, Russia, 

Canada, Hungary, Greece, New 

Zealand. 

Gemma Beadsworth (AUS). 

Zoe Arancini, Lea Barta, Keesja 

Gofers, Kate Gynther, Jessica 

Martin, Rebecca Rippon, Holly 

Lincoln-Smith, Sophie Smith, 

Ashleigh Southern, Nanda Stoltz, 

Kelsey Wakefield, 

Day 1 

Day 3 

Final 

Points 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Final 

Placings 



Assistant Coaches: Aleks 

Osadchuk, Dalibor Maslan. 



Referee: Noel Harrod. 

Australia 5 (S Smith, J Moran, 

R Webster, P O’Neill, A Southern), 

China 4Day 2: Australia 15 

(K Gynther, A Southern 4, 

H Lincoln-Smith, S Smith 2, J Martin, 

J Moran, R Webster) Italy 11. 

Australia 11 (N Stoltz, K Gofers, 

N Zagame 2, K Gynther, 

A Southern, H Lincoln-Smith, 

J Moran, R Webster) Canada 5. 

Australia 9, China 4 Canada 3, 

Italy 1. 

Semifinals: Australia 13 

(A Southern, H Lincoln-Smith 3, 

N Zagame, S Smith 2, R Rippon, 

K Gynther, P O’Neill) Italy 9. 

Gold medal: China 9 Australia 7 

(Z Arancini 2, H Lincoln-Smith, 

R Webster, P O’Neill, N Zagame, 

A Southern). 

China, Australia, Canada, Italy. 



senior women 

International Series with Italy, Perth, 


Team 

Test 1 

Test 2 

Test 3 

Test 4 

Test 5 

senior women 


Auckland, May 2011 

Team 

Day 1 


Beadsworth, Keesja Gofers, 

Kate Gynther, Bronwen Knox, 

Holly Lincoln-Smith, Alicia 

McCormack, Jane Moran, Patrice 

O’Neill, Glencora Ralph, Melissa 

Rippon, Rebecca Rippon, Ashleigh 

Southern, Nanda Stoltz, Kelsey 

Wakefield, Nicola Zagame. 


Assistant Coach: Peter Szilagyi. 



Psychologist: Kirsten Peterson. 

Referees: Andrew Carney, Daniel 

Flahive, Noel Harrod. 

Australia 13 (N Zagame 4, G Ralph 

3, G Beadsworth, Z Arancini 2, 

H Lincoln-Smith, M Rippon) Italy 10. 

Australia 11 (J Moran 3, 

N Zagame, G Ralph, G Beadsworth, 

Z Arancini, P O’Neill, R Rippon, 

A Southern, K Gofers) Italy 11. 

Australia 16 (P O’Neill 3, N 

Zagame 2, G Ralph, 

G Beadsworth, Z Arancini 2, 

J Moran, R Rippon, A Southern, 

K Gynther, M Rippon) Italy 7. 

Australia 13 (A Southern, 

K Gynther 3, J Moran, N Zagame 

2, P O’Neill, N Stoltz, H Lincoln- 

Smith) Italy 9. 

Australia 10 (N Zagame, P O’Neill 

3, J Moran, H Lincoln-Smith, 

M Rippon, G Ralph) Italy 7. 

Australia wins series 4½-½. 

Lea Barta, Gemma Beadsworth, 

Bronwen Knox, Kate Gynther, 

Holly Lincoln-Smith, Alicia 

McCormack, Jane Moran, 

Glencora Ralph, Melissa Rippon, 

Rebecca Rippon, Sophie Smith, 



Assistant Coach: Greig 

Richardson. 


Physiotherapist: Andrea Mosler. 

Referee: Nicola Johnson. 

Australia 16 (K Gynther 4, 

G Beadsworth, R Webster 3, 

S Smith, B Knox, N Zagame 2) 

New Zealand 5. 

Day 2 

Day 3 

senior women 


Sydney, May 2011 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Final 

Points 

senior women 



Team 

Australia 16 (B Knox, N Zagame 3, 

G Beadsworth, R Rippon, J Moran 

2, S Smith, K Gynther, H Lincoln- 

Smith, M Rippon) Japan 3. 

Australia 11 (N Zagame 3, B Knox, 

K Gynther 2, R Rippon, J Moran, 

K Gofers, H Lincoln-Smith) China 10. 

Lea Barta, Gemma Beadsworth, 

Victoria Brown, Keesja Gofers, 

Bronwen Knox, Holly Lincoln- 

Smith, Jane Moran, Patrice 

O’Neill, Glencora Ralph, Melissa 

Rippon, Rebecca Rippon, Sophie 

Smith, Nanda Stoltz, Rowena 

Webster, Nicola Zagame. 




Referees: Daniel Bartels, 

Nicola Johnson. 

Bye. 

Australia 14 (R Rippon, R Webster, 

B Knox 3, H Lincoln-Smith, 

N Stoltz, K Gofers, M Rippon, 

N Zagame) Australia 20 & Under 6 

(H Buckling, E Scott, E-J Grahame, 

E Browne, Z Arancini, I Bishop). 

Australia 14 (N Zagame 4, H 

Lincoln-Smith, B Knox 3, 

R Webster 2, P O’Neill, S Smith) 

Japan 5. 

Australia 10 (R Webster 4, 

N Zagame, B Knox 2, M Rippon, 

H Lincoln-Smith) New Zealand 6. 

Australia 9 (B Knox 3, S Smith, 

H Lincoln-Smith 2, N Zagame, 

R Webster) China 7. 

Australia 18, China 12, Japan 3, 


Alicia McCormack, Gemma 

Beadsworth, Keesja Gofers, Kate 

Gynther, Sophie Smith, Rebecca 

Rippon, Jane Moran, Bronwen 

Knox, Rowena Webster, Ashleigh 

Southern, Glencora Ralph, Holly 

Lincoln-Smith, Zoe Arancini, 

Nicola Zagame, Kelsey Wakefield. 



Osadchuk, Peter Szilagyi. 

Manager: Jenny Liessmann. 

Physiotherapist: James Trotter. 


senior women 

Kirishi Cup, Kirishi, Russia, 


Australia 7 (N Zagame, R Webster, 

Day 1 

G Beadsworth 2, B Knox) USA 7. 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Final 

Placings 

Australia 14 (K Gynther 4, 

A Southern 3, G Beadsworth 2, B Knox, 

N Zagame, R Webster, H Lincoln- 

Smith, Z Arancini) Greece 11. 

Russia 19 Australia 10 (R Webster 

3, K Gynther 2, G Beadsworth, 

K Gofers, B Knox, G Ralph, 

N Zagame). 

Australia 15 (K Gynther 5, B Knox 

4, A Southern 3, R Rippon, 

R Webster, G Ralph) Hungary 15. 


H Lincoln-Smith 3, N Zagame 2, 

G Beadsworth, K Gynther, B Knox, 

R Rippon, Z Arancini, G Ralph) 

Kazakhstan 7. 

Russia, Australia, Greece, USA, 

Hungary, Kazakhstan. 

senior women 

Friendly International, Ostia, Italy, 


Australia 11 (K Gynther, 

G Beadsworth, B Knox, 

N Zagame 2, J Moran, Z Arancini, 

A Southern) Italy 10. 

senior women 

FINA World League Super Final, Tianjin, China, 


Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Zoe Arancini, Gemma 

Beadsworth, Keisha Gofers, Kate 

Gynther, Bronwen Knox, Holly 

Lincoln-Smith, Alicia McCormack, 

Jane Moran, Glencora Ralph, 

Rebecca Rippon, Sophie Smith, 

Ashleigh Southern, Kelsey 

Wakefield, Rowena Webster, 

Nicola Zagame. 



Osadchuk, Peter Szilagyi. 

Manager: Jenny Liessmann. 

Physiotherapist: James Trotter. 


Australia 14 (K Gynther 4, B Knox, 

A Southern 3, G Beadsworth 2, 

G Ralph, N Zagame) Spain 6. 

Australia 10 (N Zagame 3, 

G Beadsworth 2, R Rippon, 

B Knox, K Gynther, G Ralph, 

K Gofers) Canada 8. 

Russia 12 Australia 9 (B Knox, 

H Lincoln-Smith 3, K Gynther 2, 

G Ralph). 


Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 

born ‘91 

New Zealand and USA Tour, 


Team 

Elle Armit, Hannah Buckling, 

Georgia Clarke, Rachel Flint, 

Emma Jo Grahame, Shannon 

Jones, Kayle Leathem, Claire 

Pierce, Serena Reid, Emily Scott, 

Ashleigh Southern, Emma 

Thillianath, Stephanie Thomas. 

Coach: Peter Szilagyi. 

Manager: Charlene Sommerville. 

Referee: Nicola Johnson. 

born ‘91 

International Series, Auckland, 


Match 

1 

Match 

2 

Match 

3 

New Zealand 12 Australian 

Juniors 10 (A Southern 4, 

K Leathem 2, E Scott, H Buckling, 

E Armit, S Jones). 

Australian Juniors 11 

(A Southern, R Flint 3, EJ Grahame 

2, E Browne, K Leathem, E Armit) 

New Zealand Seniors 11. 

Australian Juniors 14 (A Southern 

4, E Scott, EJ Grahame, E Browne 

2, K Leathem, S Jones, E Armit, 

S Thomas) NZ Seniors 14. NZ 

wins series 1-0. 

born ‘91 

Four Nations Tournament, Los Alamitos, USA, 


Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Australia 10 (R Webster 3, 

H Lincoln-Smith, A Southern 2, 

R Rippon, B Knox, G Ralph) Greece 8. 

USA 8 Australia 7 (G Beadsworth, 


N Zagame, K Gynther). 

Bronze medal: Australia 7 

(G Beadsworth, A Southern 2, 

K Gynther, R Rippon, R Webster) 

China 5. 

USA, Italy, Australia, China, 

Russia, Canada, Greece, Spain. 

Australia 11 (A Southern 5, 

E Armit 2, H Buckling, R Flint, 

G Clarke, C Pierce) Canada 4. 

Australia 18 (E Scott 3, E Browne, 

K Leathem, H Buckling, 

A Southern 2, S Thomas, R Flint, E 

Armit, G Clarke, EJ Grahame, 

C Pierce, S Jones) New Zealand 1. 

USA 12 Australia 9 (A Southern 6, 

R Flint, E Armit, EJ Grahame). 


E Scott 3, E Browne 2, H Buckling, 

R Flint, EJ Grahame) Canada 12. 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Points 

born ‘91 


September 2010 

Team 

born ‘91 

Friendly Matches, Zlatoust, Russia, 


Russia Youth 14 Australia 5 

Day 1 

(I Bishop, G Clarke 2, G Venosta). 

Day 2 

Uralochka 15 Australia 13 

(M Coburn 3, S Grunberger, 

M Morrison 2, G Venosta, 

I Bishop, G Clarke, D Boyle, 

L David, K McHugh). 

born ‘91 

16th International Memorial Tournament of 

Andrej Mamlhgin, Zlatoust, Russia, 


Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Final 

Placings 

MVP 

Australia 17 (EJ Grahame 5, 

H Buckling 3, S Thomas, G Clarke 

2, E Scott, R Flint, E Armit, 

A Southern, C Pierce) New Zealand 7. 

USA 7 Australia 5 (A Southern 4, 

E Scott). 

USA 12, Australia 7, Canada 5, 


Isobel Bishop, Devon Boyle, 

Georgia Clark, Madeline Coburn, 

Kimberley Cochrane, Laura David, 

Sarah Grunberger, Madison 

Morrison, Genevieve Venosta, 

Olivia King, Kathleen McHugh, 

Erin Redbond, Danielle White. 

Head Coach: Peter Szilagyi. 


Russia 21 Australia 7 (G Venosta 

3, M Coburn, I Bishop, D Boyle, 

L David). 

Australia 18 (D White 4, 

G Venosta, D Boyle 3, I Bishop, 

G Clarke, E Redbond 2, M Coburn, 

O King) Uralochka A 15. 

Australia 10 (D Boyle, L David, 

G Venosta 2, D White, 

M Coburn, G Clarke, 

S Grunberger) Uralochka B 9. 

Russia 11 Australia 8 (I Bishop 5, 

G Venosta, D Boyle, 

S Grunberger). 

Russia, Australia, Uralochka A, 

Uralochka B. 

Genevieve Venosta (AUS). 

born ‘91 

International Friendly with Greece, Athens, 

Greece, September 2010 

Greece 11 Australia 10 

(G Venosta, G Clarke 3, D Boyle 2, 

D White, O King). 

born ‘91 


Sydney, Australia, June 2011 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

born ‘93 



Team 

Jayde Appel, Zoe Arancini, 

Ellie Armit, Isobel Bishop, 

Hannah Buckling, 

Eliesha Browne, 

Stephanie Calaizis, Devon Boyd, 

Michaela Davies, 

Emma-Jo Grahame, Olivia King, 

Maddison Schmid, Emily Scott, 

Ashleigh Southern, 

Genevieve Venosta, 

Kelsey Wakefield. 

Head Coach: Peter Szilagyi. 

Assistant Coach: Tibor Seress. 


Australia 13 (Z Arancini, 

A Southern 3, I Bishop 2, 

H Buckling, E Scott, G Venosta, 

J Appel, O King) New Zealand 

Seniors 8. 

Australia 14 (R Rippon, R Webster, 


N Stoltz, K Gofers, M Rippon, 

N Zagame) Australia 20 & Under 

6 (H Buckling, E Scott, 

E-J Grahame, E Browne, 

Z Arancini, I Bishop). 

China Seniors 12 Australia 20 

& Under 7 (A Southern 3, Z 

Arancini, I Bishop, O King, 

E Browne). 

Australia 20 & Under 12 

(EJ Grahame, Z Arancini 3, 

E Scott 2, H Buckling, I Bishop, 

E Brown, G Venosta) Japan 

Seniors 7. 

Emily Boland, Matil Connor, 

Cathryn Earl, Lillian Hedges, 

Laura Malcolm, 

Bridget O’Connor, Eloise Pierce, 

Tara Pitman, Maddison Schmid, 

Kassandra Sidley, 

Janies Van Kampen, Tayla Walsh, 

Jess Warwick, Kristyn Watkins, 

Amy Wilson. 

Head coach: Ryan Moar. 

Manager: Tracey Mirabito. 

Referee: Andrew Carney. 


orn ‘93 

Pythia Cup, Itea, Greece, 


Australia 10 (M Schmid 6, M Connor 

Day 1 

2, T Walsh, C Earl) Greece 10. 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Points 

born ‘93 

Butterfly Trophy, Emmen, Netherlands, 


Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

Placings 

Greece 12 Australia 9 (M Schmid 

3, M Connor 2, T Pitman, 

J Warwick, K Watkins, K Sidley), 

Italy 11 Australia 10 (M Schmid 

4, J Warwick 3, T Pitman, T Walsh, 

C Earl). 

Hungary 20 Australia 17 

(M Schmid 5, T Pitman 3, C Earl, 

J Van Kampen 2, L Malcolm, 

J Warwick, T Walsh, M Connor, 

K Watkins), Australia 11 (M Schmid 

5, T Pitman, J Warwick 2, 

B O’Connor, K Watkins) Canada 10. 

Netherlands 9 Australia 7 

(T Walsh 3, T Pitman 2, M Schmid, 

J Warwick). 

Greece, Italy, Hungary, The 

Netherlands, Australia, Canada. 

born ‘94 

Pan Pacific Youth Championships, Auckland, 


Team 

Hungary 12 Australia 8 (Australia 

8 (C Earl 4, T Walsh, M Connor, 

J Van Kampen, K Watkins), 

Australia 21 (M Schmid 6, C Earl 

4, T Pitman, J Warwick, M Connor, 

K Watkins 2, J Van Kampen, 

B O’Connor, A Wilson) Serbia 3. 

Australia 10 (M Schmid 5, 

M Connor 4, E Boland) France 2. 

Hungary 8, Australia 5, Greece 5, 

France 2, Serbia 0. 

Lauren Andronicus, Jayde Appel, 

Chloe Barr, Stephanie Calaizis, 

Rebecca Curtis, Megan du Toit, 

Savannah Forth, Emma Johns, 

Margot Leeson-Smith, Georgia 

McConville, Shannan Martin, 

Millie Martino, Ainsley Masek, 

Paige Mortimer, Montana Perkins, 

Stephanie Polivka, Madeleine 

Quinn, Mercedes Ralph, Kassia 

Ralston, Madeleine Steere, 

Lucinda Swan, Emma Swete 

Kelly, Belinda Symons, Dorottya 

Szilagyi, Emma Williams, 

Jessica Zimmerman. 

Head Coach: Aleks Osadchuk. 

Assistant Coach: Terrill Ashton. 

Manager: Jenny MacGregor. 

Referee: Nick Hodgers. 

20 & UNDER 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

18 & UNDER 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Australia Gold 8 (C Barr, J Appel 3, 

D Szilagyi 2) Waitakere 2, Australia 

Green 9 (L Swan, J Zimmerman 

2, S Forth, S Polivka, S Martin, 

M Quinn, K Ralston) Marist 9, 

Australia Green 21 (S Forth, 

S Martin, M Quinn, M Steere 3, 

K Ralston, S Polivka, G McConville 

2, R Curtis, M du Toit, 

J Zimmerman) Northern Districts 2. 

North Harbour 6 Australia Gold 

5 (J Appel 2, A Masek, D Szilagyi, 

C Barr), Harbour City 10 Australia 

Green 3 (R Curtis, J Zimmerman, 

K Ralston). 

New Zealand Youth 8 Australia 

Green 2 (G McConville, 

J Zimmerman), Australia Gold 9 

(J Appel 4, C Barr 3, D Szilagyi, 

M Ralph) New Zealand Youth 8. 

Australia Green 8 (R Curtis 3, 

S Forth, S Martin 2, J Zimmerman) 

Team Unknown 6, QE Crushers 8 

Australia Gold 3 (J Appel 2, 

D Szilagyi). Bronze Medal: Harbour 

City 6 Australia Gold 2 (C Barr 2). 

Australia Green 9 (S Martin 3, 

S Forth 2, R Curtis, M du Toit, 

J Zimmerman, G McConville) 

Marist Blue 2, Australia Gold 14 

(C Barr 5, D Szilagyi, M Ralph, 

M Martino 2, A Masek, B Symons, 

J Appel) Waikato 1, Australia 

Green 10 (M du Toit, M Quinn 2, 

S Forth, S Polivka, R Curtis, L 

Swan, M Steere, S Martin) Hutt 7, 

Australia Gold 4 (J Appel 2, Emma 

Swete Kelly, C Barr) QE Crushers 4. 

Australia Green 15 (S Martin 4, 

S Polivka, G McConville, M Quinn, 

J Zimmerman 2, K Ralston, 

M du Toit, S Forth) Canberra 4, 

Australia Green 6 (R Curtis, 

J Zimmerman 2, L Swan, S Forth) 

UNSW 0. 

Australia Green 12 (L Swan, 

J Zimmerman, M du Toit 2, 

M Steere, K Ralston, M Quinn, 

S Martin, R Curtis, S Forth) 

Waitakere 2, Australia Gold 9 

(A Masek, J Appel, D Szilagyi 2, 

M Ralph, P Mortimer, M Martino) 

Marist Red 5. 

Australia Green 5 (J Zimmerman 

2, R Curtis, S Martin, S Polivka) 

North Harbour 4, Australia Gold 

4 (J Appel 3, M Ralph) Harbour 

City 1. 

Day 5 

Day 6 

18 & under 

Test Series, Auckland, 


Team 

Match 

1 

Match 

2 

Match 

3 

Australia Gold 17 (J Appel 4, C 

Barr, D Szilagyi, M Ralph, 

A Masek, B Symons, M Perkins 2, 

M Leeson-Smith) NSW Country 2. 

North Harbour 7 Australia Gold 

6 (M Ralph 4, J Appel, A Masek), 

Australia Green 5 (M du Toit 

2, L Swan, R Curtis, S Polivka) 

Marist 4. Bronze Medal: Marist 7 

Australia Gold 5 (A Masek, 

P Mortimer, E Swete Kelly, 

M Ralph, J Appel). Gold Medal: 

North Harbour 6 Australia Green 4 

(S Forth 2, G McConville, M du Toit). 

Jayde Appel, Chloe Barr, Stephanie 

Calaizis, Rebecca Curtis, Savannah 

Forth, Emma Johns, Shannan 

Martin, Ainsley Masek, Stephanie 

Polivka, Emma Swete Kelly, 

Belinda Symons, Dorottya Szilagyi, 

Jessica Zimmerman. 

Head Coach: Aleks Osadchuk. 

Assistant Coach: Terrill Ashton. 

Manager: Jenny MacGregor. 

Referee: Nick Hodgers. 

New Zealand 11 Australia 7 

(S Forth 2, S Martin, J Zimmerman, 

J Appel, D Szilagyi, A Masek). 

Australia 11 (J Appel 7, 

J Zimmermann, D Szilagyi, 

S Polivka, R Curtis) New Zealand 10. 

New Zealand 7 Australia 5 

(J Appel 2, J Zimmermann, 

D Szilagyi, S Martin). New 

Zealand wins series 2-1. 



Statement by the Board of Directors 


Independent Auditor’s Report 


Independent Auditor’s Report 


Statement of Comprehensive Income 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2011 

Note 2011 2010 

$ $ 

Revenue from Continuing Operations 2 

High Performance 2,653,369 2,631,882 

Sport Development 68,287 90,534 

National Water Polo League 428,084 445,678 

National Championships 175,314 87,804 

Management and Governance 786,866 805,856 

Total Revenue from Continuing Operations 4,111,920 4,061,754 

Expenditure from Continuing Operations 3 

High Performance 2,182,834 2,388,561 

Sport Development 72,247 86,929 

National Water Polo League 428,987 447,583 

National Championships 230,938 179,151 

Management and Governance 1,071,113 866,054 

Total Expenditure from Continuing Operations 3,986,119 3,968,278 

Surplus/(Deficit) for the Year 125,801 93,476 

Other Comprehensive Income for the Year - - 

Total Comprehensive Income for the Year 125,801 93,476 

The accompanying notes form part of these statements. 


Statement of Financial Position 



$ $ 

ASSETS 

Current Assets 

Cash & Cash Equivalents 4 715,953 513,702 

Trade and Other Receivables 5 552,076 372,004 

Inventory 6 170,720 182,220 

Other 7 159,477 159,449 

Total Current Assets 1,598,226 1,227,375 

Total Assets 1,612,712 1,256,355 

Non-Current Assets 

Plant & Equipment 8 14,486 28,980 

Total Non-Current Assets 14,486 28,980 

Total Assets 1,612,712 1,256,355 

LIABILITIES 

Current Liabilities 

Trade and Other Payables 9 167,299 283,772 

Provisions 11 154,030 138,509 

Other 10 360,750 71,453 

Total Current Liabilities 682,079 493,734 

Non-Current Liabilities 

Provisions 11 42,212 - 

Total Non-Current Liabilities 42,212 - 

Total Liabilities 724,291 493,734 

Net Assets 888,421 762,621 

Equity 

Accumulated Funds 888,422 762,621 

Total Equity 888,422 762,621 



Statement of Changes in Equity 


Note Accumulated 

Funds 

Total 

Equity 

Balance at 1 July 2010 669,145 669,145 

Surplus/(Deficit) attributable to the entity 93,476 93,476 

Balance as 30 June 2010 762,621 762,621 

Profit attributable to the entity 125,801 125,801 

Balance as 30 June 2011 888,422 888,422 

> Statement of Cash Flows 



$ $ 

Cash Flows from Operating Activities 2 

Receipts from Grants 2,524,250 1,947,065 

Receipts from Other 1,620,993 2,221,389 

Payments to Suppliers and Employees (3,969,411) (3,959,311) 

Interest Received 28,019 20,044 

Net Cash inflows/(outflows) from Operating Activities 12b 203,851 229,187 

Cash Flows from Investing Activities 

Payments for Plant and Equipment 8 (1,600) (20,406) 

Net Cash inflows/(outflows) from Investing Activities (1,600) (20,406) 

Net Increase/(Decrease) in Cash held 202,251 208,781 

Cash at the Beginning of the Financial Year 513,702 304,921 

Cash at the End of the Financial Year 12a 715,953 513,702 



Notes to and forming part of the accounts 

Note 1: Statement of 

Accounting Policies 

These financial statements are special 

purpose reports which have been 

prepared specifically for distribution 

to members in accordance with the 

Associations constitution and for the 

purpose of acquitting grants received 

from the Australian Sports Commission 

and the Australian Olympic Committee. 

The Association is of the type identified 

in Statement of Accounting Concepts 1 

as a non-reporting entity. The statements 

have been prepared in accordance with 

applicable accounting standards. 

a) Basis of Preparation 

The statements have been prepared on 

an accruals basis from the records of the 

Association. They are based on historic 

costs and do not take into account the 

changing values of money. 

b) Revenue and Other Income 

Government grants are recognised 

as revenue in accordance with the 

requirements and conditions of the 

Australian Sports Commission Funding 

& Service Level Agreement and the 

Australian Olympic Committee grant. 

Revenue from the sale of goods is 

recognised on delivery of the goods to 

the customer. 

Interest revenue is recognised over the 

period for which the funds are invested. 

All revenue is stated net of the amount of 

goods and services tax. 

c) Cash and Cash Equivalents 

Cash and cash equivalents include cash on 

hand, foreign currency account, deposits 

held at call with banks and other short 

term liquid investments with original 

maturities of three months or less. 

d) Goods and Services Tax (GST) 

Revenues, expenses and assets are 

recognised net of the amount of GST, except 

where the amount of GST incurred is not 

recoverable from the Australian Taxation 

Office. In these circumstances the GST 

is recognised as part of the cost of the 

acquisition or as part of an item of expense. 

Receivables and payables in the statement of 

financial position are shown inclusive of GST. 

Cash Flows are presented in the 

statement of cash flows on a gross 

basis, except for the GST component of 

investing and financing activities which 

are disclosed as operating cash flows. 

e) Property, Plant and Equipment 

Each class of property, plant and 

equipment is carried at cost or fair value 

as indicated, less where applicable, 

any accumulated depreciation and 

impairment losses. 

Plant and Equipment 

Items of plant and equipment are 

measured on the cost basis less 

depreciation and impairment losses. 

The carrying amount of plant and 

equipment is reviewed annually by 

management to ensure it is not in excess 

of the recoverable amount from these 

assets. The recoverable amount is assessed 

on the basis of the expected net cash 

flows that will be received from the asset’s 

employment and subsequent disposal. 

The expected net cash flows have been 

discounted to their present values in 

determining recoverable amounts. 

Depreciation 

The depreciable amount of all fixed 

assets, is depreciated on a diminishing 

value basis over the asset’s useful 

life commencing from the time the 

asset is held ready for use. Leasehold 

improvements are depreciated over the 

shorter of either the unexpired period of 

the lease or the estimated useful lives of 

the improvements. 

The depreciation rates used for each 

class of depreciable assets are 

Computer Equipment - 40%, Furniture 

Fixtures and Fittings - 20-25%. 

The assets’ residual values and useful 

lives are reviewed and adjusted if 

appropriate, at each statement of 

financial performance dates. 

An asset’s carrying amount is written 

down immediately to its recoverable 

amount if the asset’s carrying 

amount is greater than its estimated 

recoverable amount. 

Gains and losses on disposals are 

determined by comparing proceeds with 

the carrying amount. These gains and 

losses are included in the statement of 

comprehensive income. When revalued 

assets are sold amounts included in the 

revaluation reserve relating to that asset 

are transferred to retained earnings. 



Notes to and forming part of the accounts 

f) Impairment 

At each reporting date, the Association 

reviews the carrying values of its tangible 

and intangible assets to determine 

whether there is any indication that 

those assets have been impaired. If such 

an indication exists, the recoverable 

amount of the asset being the higher of 

the asset’s fair value less costs to sell and 

value in use is use is compared to the 

asset’s carrying value. Any excess of the 

asset’s carrying value over its recoverable 

amount is expensed to the statement of 

comprehensive income. 

g) Employee Entitlements 

Annual Leave 

Employee Entitlements are measured 

as the amount unpaid at the reporting 

at the pay rates expected to be paid in 

respect of the employee’s service up 

to that date. Accrued annual leave is 

treated as a current liability. 

Sick Leave 

Unused sick leave does not give rise to a 

liability as it is not considered probable 

that sick leave taken in the future will 

be greater than the benefits accrued in 

the future. 

Long Service Leave 

Long Service Leave is recognised and 

measured as the present value of 

expected future payments to be made in 

respect of services provided by employees 

to the reporting date. The entitlement 

for long service leave is measured in 

accordance with applicable state and 

federal industrial relations laws. 

Superannuation 

The employer’s obligation for employee 

entitlements is recognised as an expense in 

the period it relates. Expense is determined 

based on 9% of employee salaries. 

h) Trade Payables 

Trade and other payables are stated at 

cost which approximates fair value to 

the short term nature of these liabilities. 

i) Inventories 

Inventories are measured at the lower of 

cost and net realisable value. 

j) Income Tax 

The Association is an exempt body for 

income tax purposes under Division 50 

of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. 

k) Comparative Figures 

Where required by Accounting Standards 

comparative figures have been 

adjusted to conform to changes in the 

presentation of the current financial year. 

l) New Australian Accounting Standards 

Issued but not Effective 

At reporting date a number of Australian 

Accounting Standards have been issued 

by the Australian Accounting Standards 

but are not yet operative. These have 

not been adopted early by Australian 

Water Polo Incorporated as they have 

been assessed to be not materially 

affecting the financial statements. 



Notes to the financial statements 

2011 2010 

Note 2: REVENUE $ $ 

(a) High Performance 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 2,035,000 1,700,000 

Australian Olympic Committee Grants 90,000 90,000 

Athlete Contributions 502,175 781,015 

Sponsorship 24,949 60,867 

Sundry 1,245 - 

2,653,369 2,631,882 

(b) Sporting Development 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 63,000 63,000 

Australian Olympic Committee Grants - 14,158 

Accreditation & Courses 5,287 13,376 

68,287 90,534 

(c ) National Water Polo League 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 40,000 40,000 

NWPL Participation Fees 374,016 391,969 


Sundry 91 - 

428,084 445,678 

(d) National Championships 

National Championship Fees 52,104 34,467 

National Championship Travel 123,210 53,337 

175,314 87,804 

(e) Management and Governance 

Capitation Fees 382,840 301,748 

Insurance 90,392 201,958 

Merchandise Sales 180,164 206,110 


Bank Interest 28,019 20,044 

Hall Of Fame 9,080 6,591 

Affiliation Fees 800 800 

Sundry 8,695 20,739 

Member Travel Contributions 114 32,501 

Donations 20,000 - 

Total 786,866 805,856 

Total Revenue 4,111,920 4,061,754 




Note 3: EXPENDITURE $ $ 

(a) High Performance 

Employee Expenses 182,070 155,000 

National Team Travel & Competition Costs 1,421,647 1,553,842 

Grants - High Performance Programs 516,512 606,274 

Fees for Service -Sports Science Sports Medicine 27,732 73,445 

Other 34,873 - 

2,182,834 2,388,561 

(b) Sporting Development 

Fees for Service 55,000 55,000 

Coaching and Officiating Courses and Material 10,378 21,977 

Travel & General Office Costs 6,869 9,952 

72,247 86,929 

(c ) National Water Polo League 

Employee Related Expenses 

Salaries 13,761 13,761 

Superannuation 1,239 1,239 

Travel Costs 307,906 319,456 

Competition Costs 106,081 113,127 

428,987 447,583 

(d) National Championships 


Salaries - 51,711 

Superannuation - 4,654 

Competition & Travel Costs 107,728 69,607 

National Championship Team Travel 123,210 53,179 

230,938 179,151 

(e) Management and Governance 


Salaries 289,938 233,277 

Superannuation 26,879 26,834 

Provision for Annual Leave and Long Service leave 57,732 - 

Other Employee Costs 2,199 - 



Fees For Services 

Audit Fees 12,000 12,795 

Legal 20,210 - 

Accounting 68,459 58,036 

Human Resources 32,760 14,400 

Media & Website 35,882 10,000 

Operating Expenses 

Telephone and Internet Costs 20,586 18,234 

Computer & Equipment Costs 10,218 - 

National Data Base Costs 7,200 9,225 

General Office Costs 20,995 14,049 

Insurance 68,987 100,351 

Travel Costs 46,437 47,477 

Staff Training & Development 3,056 - 

Occupancy Costs 22,232 21,597 

Merchandise -Cost of Sales 117,317 151,584 

Publicity, Promotions and Website 30,910 36,080 

Corporate Functions & Entertainment 10,316 - 

Hall of Fame 26,131 19,240 

Bank Charges 4,183 4,666 

Provision for Impairment- Debtors 20,223 - 

Exchange Loss -US Dollar Bank Account 30,339 - 

Board Meeting & Member Travel Costs 35,140 45,285 

AGM Costs 14,681 22,088 

Depreciation 16,094 12,345 

Other 20,009 8,491 

1,071,113 866,054 

Total Expenditure 3,986,119 3,968,278 




Note 4: CASH & CASH EQUIVALENTS $ $ 

Cash at Bank 614,264 403,398 

US Dollar Foreign Currency Account 101,689 110,304 

715,953 513,702 

The Association operates a US Dollar Foreign Currency account to hold competition prize money paid by FINA and to pay expenses 

incurred in FINA international competitions. The operation of the account removes the uncertainty of fluctuations between the 

US dollar and Australian dollar. The amount $101,689 appearing in the statement of financial position is the accumulated value 

of the transactions at the currency rate applying at the time of each transaction. At balance date the amount held in the foreign 

currency account was $USD 109,204 and at the conversion rate as at 30 June 2011 its value was $AUD 101,689. 


Note 5: TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES $ $ 

Current: 

Trade Receivables 411,595 329,372 

Provision for impairment (31,622) (15,000) 

Other Receivables-FINA 55,000 - 

Other Receivables -Sponsorship 48,886 29,917 

Other Receivables - Staff Advance 31,935 27,715 

Other Receivables-Sundry 36,282 - 

552,076 372,004 

(a) Trade Receivables -Aged Analysis 

0-30 days 298,213 

31-60 days 3,126 

61-90 days 31,970 

91+ days 78,286 

411,595 


Note 6: INVENTORIES $ $ 

Current: 

At Cost 170,720 182,220 

170,720 182,220 




Note 7: OTHER $ $ 

Current: 

Prepayments 159,477 159,449 

159,477 159,449 


Note 8: PLANT AND EQUIPMENT $ $ 

Gross Carrying Amount 56,147 54,547 

Less: Accumulated Depreciation (41,661) (25,567) 

Net Carrying Amount 14,486 28,980 


Note 9: TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES $ $ 

Current: 

Creditors 129,256 275,357 

Accruals 38,043 8,415 

167,299 283,772 


Note 10: OTHER LIABILITIES $ $ 

Current: 

Income Received in Advance- Australian Sports Commission 296,250 - 

Income Received in Advance- Other 64,500 71,453 

360,750 71,453 


Note 11: PROVISIONS $ $ 

Current: 

Employee Entitlements - Annual Leave 121,173 99,784 

- Long Service Leave 32,857 38,725 

154,030 138,509 

Non Current : 

Employee Entitlements - Annual Leave 34,394 - 

- Long Service Leave 7,818 - 

42,212 - 



Note 12: STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS 

(a) Reconciliation of Cash 

For the purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows cash includes cash at bank and cash on hand. Cash at 30 June 2011 as shown in 

the Statement of Cash Flows is reconciled to the related items in the Balance Sheet as follows. 


Notes $ $ 

Cash at Bank 715,903 513,702 

(b) Reconciliation of Net Cash provided by Operating Activities to Surplus/(Deficit) from ordinary activities 


Notes $ $ 

Surplus/(Deficit) 125,801 93,476 

Plus/(Less): Non Cash Items 13,761 13,761 

Depreciation and Amortisation 16,094 12,345 

Increase/(Decrease) in Provisions 57,732 (3,445) 

Changes in Assets and Liabilities 

(increase)/Decrease in Receivables (180,072) 66,700 

(increase)/Decrease in Inventory 11,500 (34,194) 

(increase)/Decrease in Other Assets (28) 148,137 

Increase/(Decrease) in Payables (116,473) (69,661) 

Increase/(Decrease) in Other Liabilities 289,297 15,829 

203,851 229,187 

Note 13: RELATED PARTIES 

The members who comprise the Board of Australian Water Polo Inc. are Peter Kerr, Leanne Barnes (resigned 28/11/2010), John Birch, David 

Martin, Phillip Scales, Warren Hawtin, Trent Franklin, Kay Copeland (appointed 28/11/2010) and Amy Hetzel. In their capacity as Board 

Members they received no remuneration. Any transactions between related parties are on normal commercial terms and conditions. 

Note 14: ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE 

The ongoing viability of the Association is dependent upon the continuing support of the funding bodies and the Member of the Association. 

Note 15: EVENTS OCCURING AFTER BALANCE DATE 

There are no events after the statement of financial position affecting these financial statements to be disclosed. 


Australian Water Polo Inc would like to thank the following partners: 

Principal sponsor 

Sponsors 

Queensland 

Academy of Sport

Australian Water Polo Inc 

ABN 27 827 505 148 

PO Box 580, Sydney Markets, NSW 2129 

NSWIS, Building B, Level 1, 6 Figtree Drive 

Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127 

Telephone: 02 9763 0600 

Facsimile: 02 9763 0382 

Email: info@australianwaterpolo.com.au 

www.australianwaterpolo.com.au

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